Comments on: Conversations With christians – Beth 2 – Down The Rabbit Hole

By: Neece

Neece — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:23:12 +0000

Thanks Johnny.
I’ll have to ask her more about where she is and where she’s come from on her spiritual journey. Although I have a feeling I won’t hear from her again since this last exchange.

By: Neece

Neece — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:21:45 +0000

Thanks for the comment.

By: Neece

Neece — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:20:49 +0000

Nice, Eric. Exactly!

By: Neece

Neece — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:20:08 +0000

a pamphlet. HA! LOL! Nice analogy too. Thanks Dan

By: Neece

Neece — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:19:08 +0000

Thanks Steve. Yeah. That’s a great description.. Pandora’s Box. I like that.

By: Neece

Neece — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:18:02 +0000

Hi Eric. Well, I don’t know. I think most self help books are pretty vapid and downright unhelpful. There are a lot of great books out there that I’ve gotten wisdom out of, and none of them were religious. So I agree with you.

By: Eric K

Eric K — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:33:11 +0000

The cherry-picking demonstrates a good point: if you’re choosing, you have some criteria for choice. Those criteria can’t come from that from which you’re cherry-picking – therefore your decision on what’s moral or “god-inspired” and what’s not is based on something outside that which you claim to be the word of god. Therefore, your morals aren’t based on the Bible, but on your own brain.

The claim that morals “come from” God is harder to dispel, but it’s easy to make the argument that they don’t “come from” the book. Another easy point to make: “So you’re telling me that if it weren’t for that book there you’d be stealing, murdering, lying, pillaging, etc? Stay away from me, nutbag.”