If there is one thing I want any theists who come by this blog to get, it’s this — there are things I simply Do Not Get. There are aspects of your world view that I do not understand, in the gut meaning of that word. When I say that I’m a natural atheist, that [...]
13 August 2008
My Encounters with Christianity III: Cricket and Twisted Perspective, Pt II.
(Part One here)
So: I went to church with Cricket and her family. I wanted to believe. I was reading the New Testament, I bought myself a fancy Bible (NIV, of course, Study Edition), I read the little pamphlet’s Cricket’s mom gave me. I prayed; or rather, tried to pray.
The people at the church were not [...]
13 August 2008
“Just”
“Just” can be a magical word. Only “but” is more powerful.*
The magic goes something like this: add “just” to whatever you’re talking about, and you radically change that thing into a pallid, vaporous nothing, easily dismissed. For example, consider this sentence: “You can’t possibly believe that all we are is just matter.”
Aha! With one word, [...]
