On Values
Or perhaps this post should be titled “On Tolerance” or “On Acceptance” or even “On Supporting Other People In Their Lives Without Judgement”. It’s in the “God” category because, guess what, I think God gave people their values. And because people are different, it follows that God gave different people different values, so that hopefully they wouldn’t all live their lives exactly the same way and thus he wouldn’t end up with a bunch of teachers or a bunch of artists etc.
On Religulous
Kieran and I just watched Religulous (a documentary by Bill Maher). As critics have pointed out, he successfully found the people who could not give rational reasons for what they believe, and thus assumes that rational reasons cannot exist.
In the eyes of mainstream Christianity I’m probably labelled as a heretic because I don’t blindly accept what the person up the front of the church says but I consider things for myself. Some of my views are fundamentalist, some are liberal, some are from experience, some are from non-Christian sources, and some of them are from my own personal logic made up by me.
My responses as a self-defined bible-believing non-denominational Christian (had Bill bothered to interview someone that has considered the beliefs fed to them from their parents and community):