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I was checking out one of my favourite religious websites, The Way of the Master. I have to say that the website design and production is pretty slick. That's evidence that they have a good web designer :-) It opens with a video showing Kirk Cameron talking to Ray Comfort. Yes, it is the Kirk Cameron from TV's Growing Pains, he is an evangelist now. And yes, Ray Comfort is a perfect name for an evangelist, don't you think?
Anyways, near the end of the two-minute or so video, Kirk talks about how Christians can convert non-believers. He points at his head with both index fingers and says it's possible if we use "... the powerful principle of bypassing the intellect ..." When he said it, I was reading other websites as I listened, so I went back to the video and played it again to make sure that I heard it correctly. And after I heard it again, I played the video again (oh why won't they put a rewind button on that thing?), just to be sure. I was laughing and couldn't believe that he actually said that!
What exactly is he trying to say? That intellectual people don't believe in gods, so they have to go around it? That gods are not intellectually reasonable? That gods don't make any damn sense? That any person who likes to use their intellect is not going to believe in gods? That his god gave us these brains in order to not use them? That some god wanted us to have the brains for the sole (soul) purpose of creating instruments, techniques and thought processes that would cast doubt on its existence? Is an intellect bypass like a heart bypass at the hospital, but it takes place in a church? Absolutely unbelievable, and just further evidence to support the sentiment that all thinking men (and ladies) are atheists.
Edit (September 2nd, 2008): I just saw another video in which Kirk says Christians can avoid the issue of evolution by "circumnavigating the intellect". Ray happily adds that means people don't have to learn about the (air-quotes used when he said it) "fossil record", or learn any big words.
I will NOT bypass my intellect.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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What more do you expect from them?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArroX.u1Krnc69qv5bJXDUwjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20090624002636AAVAMno
And yeah, that ''Muhammed Asif'' guy getting 36 thumbs down IS me.
I just kinda tried to pass over a smart@ss comment, guess people weren't amused :P
The biggest weapon theists have is the ability to stretch their concept of God as much as possible to fight just about any kind of logic.
What more do you need when you can label your God ''all-powerful'', ''most merciful'', ''greatest Judge'' etc. ?
The boundaries of logic are thus broken, not in the least because all these qualities contradict each other.
But it doesn't matter; they still get the sheep, who favour ''faith'' in place of logic.
But times are changing; the rise of atheism stands testimony to that.
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