What do we really believe?
First, read Cenk Uygur’s HuffPost entry from yesterday: “If You’re a Christian, Muslim or Jew – You are Wrong.”
I’m not telling you to read it because I think your beliefs need assaulting, or even because I think this guy is an especially great writer or thinker. No, the reason I want you to read it is this:
What do you really believe, literally? Do you believe that certain kinds of magic were performed by certain people in history? If so, why then and not now? The writer asks some fair questions about inconsistencies in what you may or may not believe (and by the way, I’m not asking you to do anything that I’m not doing myself, so this isn’t about me trying to say my beliefs are superior to yours) – how do you respond to these questions?
If you were in a public debate with this guy, and were being judged by a panel of the smartest people in the world on your ability to make a lucid argument against his point, how would you do it? What would you say?
[THX: Tutt.]
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I’d love a crack at debating with that guy because he’s not that bright. I Googled him, and from what I see, he’s a second rate mind. I’m not going to go into the content of what I’d say right now, as I don’t wish to start a flame war in your journal, but I’ve debated lots of people far brighter than him and done well. The problem with these kinds of debates is that I’m not going to change his mind and vice versa. I’d just make him look like an angry fool.
Aloha,
Jeff
I’d love a crack at debating with that guy because he’s not that bright. I Googled him, and from what I see, he’s a second rate mind. I’m not going to go into the content of what I’d say right now, as I don’t wish to start a flame war in your journal, but I’ve debated lots of people far brighter than him and done well. The problem with these kinds of debates is that I’m not going to change his mind and vice versa. I’d just make him look like an angry fool.
Aloha,
Jeff
Actually, I wasn’t offering him up as brilliant. Mainly, I was just wondering how people would answer his challenges. I didn’t see anything in this that convinced me he was anything special, but sometimes I think that interesting questions can come from unusual places (and unwitting sources, for that matter).
Actually, I wasn’t offering him up as brilliant. Mainly, I was just wondering how people would answer his challenges. I didn’t see anything in this that convinced me he was anything special, but sometimes I think that interesting questions can come from unusual places (and unwitting sources, for that matter).
I know you weren’t offering him up as brilliant, that much is obvious.
Proving God exists is as tough as the answering the old question of which came first? the chicken or the egg. I read in a couple of articles that the guy wrote where he had to engage in Sophistry to get his point across.
Aloha,
Jeff
I know you weren’t offering him up as brilliant, that much is obvious.
Proving God exists is as tough as the answering the old question of which came first? the chicken or the egg. I read in a couple of articles that the guy wrote where he had to engage in Sophistry to get his point across.
Aloha,
Jeff