David Wesley (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dwesley) wrote,@ 2008-04-26 01:12:00 |
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A Question of Faith
I stuck my neck out a bit over on a blog that I really enjoy called Depleted Cranium. The blog focusses on bad science and crazy alarmist fears and such things as that. But, they had a post about a particularly nasty looking cult and one of the commenters expressed a desire not to hear things that makes her question her faith. The Atheists that hang out there immediately jumped on it and told her that the only conclusion she could draw was that "everything she had been told about god was a lie, and god didn't exist." Now, I'm fine with letting people believe whatever they believe, but I couldn't let that stand as the only option. Not, when someone's faith was hanging out there, blowing in the wind.
Chances are, the commenter didn't even read it, but I took at least a little bit of pleasure in it.
I stuck my neck out a bit over on a blog that I really enjoy called Depleted Cranium. The blog focusses on bad science and crazy alarmist fears and such things as that. But, they had a post about a particularly nasty looking cult and one of the commenters expressed a desire not to hear things that makes her question her faith. The Atheists that hang out there immediately jumped on it and told her that the only conclusion she could draw was that "everything she had been told about god was a lie, and god didn't exist." Now, I'm fine with letting people believe whatever they believe, but I couldn't let that stand as the only option. Not, when someone's faith was hanging out there, blowing in the wind.
Chances are, the commenter didn't even read it, but I took at least a little bit of pleasure in it.
