Welcome. This is what Digital Reason is about…
…I subscribe to Christian beliefs, but hardly anyone I know does. Why? There are many reasons, but the one I relate to most is the idea that following Jesus is outside of reason. It’s something that comforts people, or makes them feel a sense of purpose, or maybe provides an outlet for their charity, but it’s not really reasonable. I used to feel that way: then Jesus came in. I was dragged kicking and screaming into the kingdom of God, and I still don’t feel particularly comfortable with Christian culture (much of which I find downright offensive). But I’ve wrestled with the Bible intellectually for years, and I’m finding it makes much more sense than do the worldviews with which it competes.
I hold my beliefs very loosely, because I could conceivably be convinced against Christianity at any time. Thus far, though, I find it to be the soundest worldview I’ve come across, with no real contest. My logical side tried every claim of Christianity by the fire of reason, and I was shocked to find it coming out resoundingly true.
Digital Reason is a place for dialogue about rational thinking in the modern world. I would love to hear comments from people who know nothing about Jesus, or maybe even find themselves hostile to Christianity. I would love to learn something new, or be convinced that I should change a certain belief (or many!).
Please feel welcome. I hope this blog is beneficial to others who are searching for solid beliefs, and a way to live life without intellectual compromise. Cheers!
March 11, 2007 at 5:48 am
Kudos for admitting that you believe what you believe only loosely. We all should, whatever it is that we believe, don’t you think?
April 20, 2007 at 8:01 am
Amen!
Haha
May 11, 2007 at 5:39 am
Hey, I’ve stumbled across your blog and it’s interesting reading what you have to say…i guess i like it because i can relate to it. I have to admit though that i often don’t find christians very logical or reasonable, or christianity for that matter, but i always view Jesus, or God or whatever outside of these ‘religious’ confinments.
I’ve started a blog with some ideas on it that i think you may be interested to read, so if you get time please check it out. I’ll try and do the same with yours. Thanks
http://timmaundrell.wordpress.com
January 7, 2008 at 12:49 am
It may be that there is much to find offensive among Christians, but is that not also true of mankind in general? For example, I have found Christians to be embarrassingly gullible, but so also have I found all my fellow men—even the supposedly highly educated ones. It is true that Christians are full of prejudices, shames, stupidities, and sins without count, but how do they differ from the body of creatures from which they have been drawn? There is no sin or folly among Christians that is not also practiced with relish and abandon by their unbelieving fellows.
(One need not point out the Inquisition to me, because I will immediately point out two things to him: 1) recent evidence that suggests that the Inquisition was not so bad as has been supposed, and 2) the oceans of blood that have been spilled by atheist societies in the last 150 years.)
The one difference with Christians is that when we are ashamed of our silly little follies, we are conscious not only of our effrontery to our friends and family but also to our God. Christianity does NOT hold that Christians are better men than any other in any sense whatsoever. (Though I do believe that every Christian is better than he might otherwise have been.) Christianity simply holds out a Hope for all men to eventually be brought out of all that—imperfectly at first, it is true—into a place and state of reconciliation not only to God, but also to their fellowmen as well. The purpose of that reconciliation is to be found in the supremacy of Love (I Cor. 13:13).
Warm regards,
Opus
June 1, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Oh - and interesting site. I am not hostile toward christianity nor jesus. I was a Catholic most of my life.
June 1, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Crazybengal, I’d be incredibly interested to hear about your process of moving away from Catholicism.