tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post6510066531318769477..comments2023-12-21T06:35:36.624-05:00Comments on Recursivity: The Pascal Lecture: Another Year, Another EmbarrassmentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-66891295294535363912012-01-10T13:32:08.497-05:002012-01-10T13:32:08.497-05:00There's probably more evidence for Bigfoot tha...There's probably more evidence for Bigfoot than Jesus. But even if you admit the existence of some person named Jesus in the 1st century, that doesn't mean there's an actual person who performed the miracles described in the Christian bible.Jeffrey Shallithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763971505497961430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-21444228730063816592012-01-10T10:03:34.565-05:002012-01-10T10:03:34.565-05:00- the University is hostile to "God, Jesus, a...- the University is hostile to "God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit". Yes, but in exactly the same way it is hostile to any claim presented without evidence, such as Bigfoot, UFO's, and homeopathy.<br /><br />Hmmm you honestly believe there's no evidence for Jesus of Nazareth? That's a terrible analogy. Try again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-23670724459925566432011-11-25T18:20:35.635-05:002011-11-25T18:20:35.635-05:00Robert:
I think you have a reading comprehension ...Robert:<br /><br />I think you have a reading comprehension problem.Jeffrey Shallithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763971505497961430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-9895013516313994692011-11-25T16:08:02.964-05:002011-11-25T16:08:02.964-05:00I don't comment about other things , but it...I don't comment about other things , but it's funny how you took the ridiculous argument with the so called "misquotation" of Habermas, when in fact, even if slightly different, both quotations say the same thing. <br />It's like two people are arguing: "I said left!" - "No! What a liar you are, you said left!".Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-88929774607335041312011-02-21T07:43:56.574-05:002011-02-21T07:43:56.574-05:00But without Muggeridge we would never have had thi...But without Muggeridge we would never have had this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqAHHhr7vmU&feature=relatedGarkbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12234102759650383703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-19309554793046404022011-02-14T16:09:44.081-05:002011-02-14T16:09:44.081-05:00I was rather taken with "Saint Mugg" way...I was rather taken with "Saint Mugg" way back when I was a naive teenage convert to evangelicalism. A few years later he went full-bore into a reactionary Catholicism I found repugnant, and that was that as far as I was concerned.Eamon Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262012749524758120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-18011404289132369962011-02-14T09:13:04.660-05:002011-02-14T09:13:04.660-05:00Here are some internet polls - that should be take...Here are some internet polls - that should be taken with a big grain of salt, of course:<br /><br />http://cantuar.blogspot.com/2010/09/poll-should-christians-burn-quran.html<br /><br />(Koran should be burned - 11% say yes)<br /><br />http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2010/09/morning_poll_should_florida_pr.php<br /><br />(Koran should be burned as a provocation - 48% say yes)<br /><br />http://www.naplesnews.com/polls/2010/sep/minster_quran_burn_free_speech/results/<br /><br />(Koran should be burned - 37% say yes)Jeffrey Shallithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763971505497961430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-47549061027362828122011-02-14T00:21:13.301-05:002011-02-14T00:21:13.301-05:00If you polled US Christians and asked them if burn...<i>If you polled US Christians and asked them if burning a Koran was a good idea, you'd get a much larger percentage of support than many people would expect.</i><br /><br />Well, it's an empirical question. I suspect that you're right; these disappointing revelations happen a bit too often to be very confident that such a poll wouldn't reveal what you suggest. But although that attitude would be dreadful, and shameful, and apt to play an enabling role in overt bigotry, it would at least be passive by default. It seems fairly clear that even those people are not publicly and actively whipping up support for Koran-burning; so, bad as their attitudes may be, they aren't quite like Jones. (That is, they are less virulent -- whatever their true numbers.)Tim Kenyonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-34232073057801966952011-02-13T17:21:08.493-05:002011-02-13T17:21:08.493-05:00Well, I think Jones is representative of a small b...Well, I think Jones is representative of a small but virulent strain of Christianity - the same strain that manifests itself in hatred of gays. If you polled US Christians and asked them if burning a Koran was a good idea, you'd get a much larger percentage of support than many people would expect.<br /><br />North American Christians would do better to face up to this strain and confront it head-on, instead of pretending it doesn't exist.Jeffrey Shallithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763971505497961430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-46564920768960801482011-02-13T16:38:05.706-05:002011-02-13T16:38:05.706-05:00Thanks, Jeff, for a detailed and provocative summa...Thanks, Jeff, for a detailed and provocative summary/critique. I admit to being a bit flummoxed by the "We've been silenced!" theme of some scholars of Christianity. Richard Gwyn gave a talk called "Coming Out of the Closet: Religion in Public Affairs" not long after I came to Waterloo, the title of which similarly left me wondering whether I'd dozed off for fifteen minutes and missed some very short epoch during which religion was absent from public affairs.<br /><br />That said, I would add that of course there's a perfectly clear sense in which pastor Terry Jones is unrepresentative of North American Christianity; as one person, he will be unrepresentative in myriad ways no matter what, and the fact that such a big deal was made of him suggests by contrast that Christians <i>aren't</i> actually lined up around the block to burn a Koran.<br /><br />I think there are awkward questions for North American Christians to answer about the extent of religious intolerance that subsists in their various demographics, and about the extent to which their institutions have acted as brokers and conduits for intolerance in recent times. My sense is that Terry Jones is not a very useful way of raising or focusing those questions, though.Tim Kenyonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-21356939371870482732011-02-12T16:31:04.544-05:002011-02-12T16:31:04.544-05:00You sure do love a good quote-debunking!
* I'...You sure do love a good quote-debunking!<br /><br />* I'd love to hear a report on what Donald Knuth said.<br />* "She dismissed the Christian pastor who wanted to burn a Koran as unrepresentative of North American Christianity". Is there any data to suggest that she is wrong? I'm not that familiar with Christianity on that side of the Atlantic.<br />* Regarding the CS Lewis "niceness" claim ... that would seem to be within the purview of sociology. Any data there?<br />* I've always suspected that Muggeridge wasn't worth reading. What's your source for that story? I'd love to read the original.Luke Barneshttp://letterstonature.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-76918773404289774132011-02-11T14:42:02.192-05:002011-02-11T14:42:02.192-05:00And recall how often William F. Buckley used to ha...And recall how often William F. Buckley used to have Muggeridge on his show Firing Line. I remain mystified as to why. It was probably Muggeridge, though, who persuaded Buckley to be against evolution as well....John Farrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18280296574996987228noreply@blogger.com