Welcome to that little thing called teh blogospherez, Rob. And if you thought drawing 'toons was a time-consuming habit that could eat up your entire existence, you haven't seen anything yet. I have yet to kick this particular jones, and I've been tossing thoughts into the digital wind for 29 months now.
And enjoying every minute of my peculiar addiction.
Now, as to a substantive comment re: the RR response in Point V.
I have never found it useful to deny the fact that, in the end, we really are animals. By doing so, one grants reinforcement to the Garden of Eden creation myth where, among other concepts, humanity was created separately and specially from the rest of the known universe and, therefore, cedes the basic foundation of the argument to the Mosaic-literalist worldview. (Let us not enter into the realm of whether the Mosaic books were even written by Moses, or even a near contemporary of Moses. That gets too far afield for this comment.) Therefore, you place the fundamentalist on firmer theological footing for the remainder of the discussion.
Only by maintaining an argument separate from Judeo-Christian theology, while simultaneously assaulting their own theology-derived datum points, have I had any fortune in causing a fundamentalist Christian to back away. I do not claim that it is the perfect solution, but only what works well for me.
Oh, and this was so much better than my own third entry into the blog world, which was about the local kerfluffle regarding a work of art. So welcome to the grind. I'll leave a pot of coffee on for you.
Heh.
First off...
Welcome to that little thing called teh blogospherez, Rob. And if you thought drawing 'toons was a time-consuming habit that could eat up your entire existence, you haven't seen anything yet. I have yet to kick this particular jones, and I've been tossing thoughts into the digital wind for 29 months now.
And enjoying every minute of my peculiar addiction.
Now, as to a substantive comment re: the RR response in Point V.
I have never found it useful to deny the fact that, in the end, we really are animals. By doing so, one grants reinforcement to the Garden of Eden creation myth where, among other concepts, humanity was created separately and specially from the rest of the known universe and, therefore, cedes the basic foundation of the argument to the Mosaic-literalist worldview. (Let us not enter into the realm of whether the Mosaic books were even written by Moses, or even a near contemporary of Moses. That gets too far afield for this comment.) Therefore, you place the fundamentalist on firmer theological footing for the remainder of the discussion.
Only by maintaining an argument separate from Judeo-Christian theology, while simultaneously assaulting their own theology-derived datum points, have I had any fortune in causing a fundamentalist Christian to back away. I do not claim that it is the perfect solution, but only what works well for me.
Oh, and this was so much better than my own third entry into the blog world, which was about the local kerfluffle regarding a work of art. So welcome to the grind. I'll leave a pot of coffee on for you.
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