I enjoyed this:
Posted in A Cacophony of Posts, Ir (Helen) | 16 Comments »Andrew Hamilton, whose blog is The Backyard Missionary, has just gone on vacation and left his atheist friend “Grendel” in charge of his blog for two weeks.
Here’s how Grendel ended his first blog entry:
Posted in A Cacophony of Posts, Ir (Helen) | 1 Comment »At the very least this fortnight will be an interesting exploration into why people who have faith, lose it and their journey from that point on.
In the bookstore today I discovered The Reason-Driven Life by Robert Price, a new book which evidently is a response to the best-selling Christian book, The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren.
It looked interesting, so I bought it. Here’s an excerpt from the inside front cover:
Posted in A Cacophony of Posts, Ir (Helen) | 51 Comments »Rick Warren’s bestselling The Purpose-Driven Life has become the great inspirational book of our decade, and to Robert M. Price that’s a complete mystery. Price, now a humanist and New Testament scholar, spent a dozen years as a member of the American evangelical subculture, and in his witty and poignant rejoinder to Pastor Warren, The Reason-Driven Life, Price exposes Warrenism as stale, warmed-over fundamentalism. Among other revelations, Price demonstrates how this popular “personal relationship with Christ” theology actually has no biblical basis whastoever.
However, the real tragedy of Warren’s appraoch to Christianity, according to Price, is that it tries to meet a genuine spiritual hunger with puerile sentiment and infantile beliefs. It teaches that strict adherence to fundamentalist teaching of God’s will is the only way to find a purpose in life. Price recognizes that fundamental Christianity as espoused by Warren stunts an individual’s growth personally, morally and intellectually, and that the only worthwhile critique of Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life is to provide a better, more reasonable alternative for people who are seeking maturity and meaning in life.