Comments on: Those Sensitive Fundamentalists http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/07/29/those-sensitive-fundamentalists/ Bill Muehlenberg's commentary on issues of the day... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bill Muehlenberg http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/07/29/those-sensitive-fundamentalists/comment-page-1/#comment-92376 Bill Muehlenberg Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:28:31 +0000 http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/07/29/those-sensitive-fundamentalists/#comment-92376 Thanks Greg Actually in 2000 Paul Vitz wrote a book on just that issue, called <i>Faith of the Fatherless</i>. He argued that many well known atheists in fact had absent or abusive fathers. See my review of this book here: http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2002/03/16/a-review-of-faith-of-the-fatherless-by-paul-vitz/ Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch Thanks Greg

Actually in 2000 Paul Vitz wrote a book on just that issue, called Faith of the Fatherless. He argued that many well known atheists in fact had absent or abusive fathers. See my review of this book here: www.billmuehlenberg.com/2002/03/16/a-review-of-faith-of-the-fatherless-by-paul-vitz/

Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch

]]> By: Greg Brien http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/07/29/those-sensitive-fundamentalists/comment-page-1/#comment-92372 Greg Brien Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:23:19 +0000 http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/07/29/those-sensitive-fundamentalists/#comment-92372 I wonder how many atheists had a great relationship with their father? And as a result seek for comfort elsewhere: in the atheistic intellectual world view. But end up worshipping at the altar of Gaia. Greg Brien I wonder how many atheists had a great relationship with their father? And as a result seek for comfort elsewhere: in the atheistic intellectual world view. But end up worshipping at the altar of Gaia.
Greg Brien

]]> By: David Grace http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/07/29/those-sensitive-fundamentalists/comment-page-1/#comment-91813 David Grace Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:59:51 +0000 http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/07/29/those-sensitive-fundamentalists/#comment-91813 Bill Just brilliant. The argument puts into perspective our own lives. One life in billions on this earth today. An earth that has been around for an unimaginable number of years with countless billions of people. Yet our God sent His only son to die and raise from the dead to overcome the sin of all mankind. To prove that for all time His life conquers sin and death and that His followers need not be afraid- afraid of criticisms from Dawkins or other non believers. We pray for Dawkins and his fellow travellers because Jesus taught us to preach the gospel to every creature. He also told us that some would reject His teaching. We know that so we are not perturbed but we contimue to seek to persuade others of the promise of another life after this and for which this life is but a trial. A trial means we have to out up with things we would as humans prefer not to have to indergo but there is a reason for suffering and that may only be known today to God but we know through seeing the sufferengs of Jesus and from His tweaching that he is the Way and that by following His example ( which included suffering) that we can go the Father. Keep up th good fight Bill even though there are times where you suffer for what youi are doing. Regards David Grace Bill
Just brilliant. The argument puts into perspective our own lives. One life in billions on this earth today. An earth that has been around for an unimaginable number of years with countless billions of people.
Yet our God sent His only son to die and raise from the dead to overcome the sin of all mankind. To prove that for all time His life conquers sin and death and that His followers need not be afraid- afraid of criticisms from Dawkins or other non believers.
We pray for Dawkins and his fellow travellers because Jesus taught us to preach the gospel to every creature. He also told us that some would reject His teaching. We know that so we are not perturbed but we contimue to seek to persuade others of the promise of another life after this and for which this life is but a trial.
A trial means we have to out up with things we would as humans prefer not to have to indergo but there is a reason for suffering and that may only be known today to God but we know through seeing the sufferengs of Jesus and from His tweaching that he is the Way and that by following His example ( which included suffering) that we can go the Father.
Keep up th good fight Bill even though there are times where you suffer for what youi are doing.
Regards
David Grace

]]> By: Murray Adamthwaite http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/07/29/those-sensitive-fundamentalists/comment-page-1/#comment-91795 Murray Adamthwaite Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:28:39 +0000 http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/07/29/those-sensitive-fundamentalists/#comment-91795 Ewan, Here, here! These too are starting to get very sensitive and nervous, as well as venomous, as the evidence against the whole GW scenario steadily mounts, and an increasing number of of qualified scientists jump ship on the whole thing. But then, it's not really about science at all: it never has been. It was cooked up by the far left back in the early 1990s, after the collapse of Communism. Where to now with no Communist monolith by which to attack Western capitalism, lifestyle, corporations etc? And even no it's not about science: it is a political agenda. Look at the rhetoric from the likes of Tim Flannery: he wants global totalitarian government to enforce climate rectitude so as to save the planet! It always has been about this sort of thing: a global crisis needs a global solution, which in turn needs a global government. I have not been into conspiracy theories in the past, nor into lurid prophetic speculation, but I fear we are witnessing the advent of the final antichrist with this whole push, given the rhetoric which now accompanies it. And the phenomenon of militant atheism may well be part of the same scenario. Murray Adamthwaite Ewan,
Here, here! These too are starting to get very sensitive and nervous, as well as venomous, as the evidence against the whole GW scenario steadily mounts, and an increasing number of of qualified scientists jump ship on the whole thing.

But then, it’s not really about science at all: it never has been. It was cooked up by the far left back in the early 1990s, after the collapse of Communism. Where to now with no Communist monolith by which to attack Western capitalism, lifestyle, corporations etc?

And even no it’s not about science: it is a political agenda. Look at the rhetoric from the likes of Tim Flannery: he wants global totalitarian government to enforce climate rectitude so as to save the planet! It always has been about this sort of thing: a global crisis needs a global solution, which in turn needs a global government. I have not been into conspiracy theories in the past, nor into lurid prophetic speculation, but I fear we are witnessing the advent of the final antichrist with this whole push, given the rhetoric which now accompanies it. And the phenomenon of militant atheism may well be part of the same scenario.

Murray Adamthwaite

]]> By: Ewan http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/07/29/those-sensitive-fundamentalists/comment-page-1/#comment-91723 Ewan Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:31:35 +0000 http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/07/29/those-sensitive-fundamentalists/#comment-91723 Good one Bill, but what about those other religious fundamentalists we hear a lot about these days - the true believers of man-made global-warming? ;-) Ewan McDonald. Good one Bill, but what about those other religious fundamentalists we hear a lot about these days – the true believers of man-made global-warming? ;-)

Ewan McDonald.

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