Thursday, November 17, 2005

Missing the Point


I left a comment on the blog of Bob Smietana, who writes for Christianity Today, and has written at least one column for the Revealer, which is a religion news blog run by Jeff Sharlet, a hugely talented and smart young writer who is at times very insightful on religion, but often also very mistaken, because he is trying to write mostly about Christianity as if he is a dispassionate observer, when actually he believes in his secular humanism/materialism as strongly as any Christian does in Christ.

Smietana was angry over an Al Mohler column, and I wrote a few words in Mohler's defense, but also in protest of Smietana's apparent willingness to miss the main point. Click here to read his post and my comment below.

6 Comments:

Blogger Bob said...

Stan

Thanks for your comments and the mention. I disagree with Mohler on a number of levels, mostly that he is pontificating about a trend he knows little about, and pronounces judgment using Scriptures he'd not following. Choosing not to have children is a complicated decision--a few people make chose it for selfish reasons, and get their names in the paper because of it. Other chose it for more complex reasons--most often infertility, which affects one in six couples in the US.

The "quiver full of arrows" verse can be used to imply that people who cannot have children are somehow cursed by God.

7:02 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is a digression, since the real discussion here is about Bob and Mohler. But still, I can't help asking: How did you manage to peek in my secret secular humanism/materialism diary? I thought I had adequately disguised it by writiing "Protocols of the Youngers of Brooklyn" on the cover, but you've outed my nefarious humanistic/materialistic plan!!!

Oh, wait a minute -- I was just smoking crack. Your kind words are genuinely appreciated, but A)you've got me all wrong; B)you characterize my views without asking me about them -- and in direct contradiction to my lengthiest writing on the subject, Killing the Buddha.

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