Yesterday, did I say that Christianity is 5% brains and 95% emotion?
What I was thinking?
Let’s change that to 95% brains, and 5% emotion.
Here’s why that formula also works: You would have to be one drool-stained moron to commit your heart, mind and soul to any faith or belief system that isn’t obviously, and in every [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Atheists’
16 Apr
Make That Christianity: 95% Brains, 5% Emotion
15 Apr
Christianity: 5% Brain, 95% Emotion. Yeah, Baby!
I think those of us who believe in God are sometimes too reluctant to acknowledge that first and foremost the religious experience is about emotion. It has an intellectual aspect, of course—but the intellectualizing of religion comes way after the swooning, singing, crying, hoping, and repenting it inspires.
First you cry; then you write a book. [...]
20 Feb
Great Commission vs. Great Commandment 2
Here’s the (way late) follow-up to my first video about the inherently difficult relationship between the Great Commission and the Great Commandment.
21 Jan
Atheists: To Whom (If Anyone) Are You Ultimately Grateful?
A while ago I posted An Honest Question: Atheists, How Do You Process Your Guilt?. The question I asked in that piece has been on my mind, because I’ve lately had occasion to feel truly overwhelming happiness as a result of some stuff happening in my personal life.
We often reference and feel the succor that God [...]
8 Jan
Sane Evangelizing 101
In response to my post Evangelist or Ego Driven Meddler?, a reader (hi, Candy Nivens of Charlotte, NC!) asked if I had any tips on how to keep your ego in check while evangelizing. As it happens, I wrote a whole book on that very matter (”I’m OK–You’re Not“) … so, yes, I do.
My first [...]
16 Dec
Christians: Don’t Too Readily Dismiss Atheists/Rationalists
In my last post, Atheists/Rationalists: Don’t Too Readily Dismiss the Believer, I made the point that religion gives the believer at least one life tool that’s universally valued and necessarily unavailable to the atheist/rationalist.
But (life being what it is), there’s another side to ye oldye Religion vs. Atheism coin.
Atheists have championed what we Christians too [...]
14 Dec
Rationalists/Atheists: Don’t Too Readily Dismiss the Believer
It’s certainly no challenge for a rationalist/atheist to dismiss out of hand those who believe in God.
The Christian, scoffs the rationalist, is weak-willed: superstitious, deaf to logic, incapable of independent thought, intellectually and even morally lazy.
Okay. We believers can take that sort of criticism. We can (or certainly should) even acknowledge the ways in which [...]
22 Sep
Letter From an Atheist Married to a Christian
In response to the recent post of mine entitled Christian Marrying a Non-Christian? Marriage: FAIL, an atheist friend of mine, David (who keeps the blog Mediocrity.Us), wrote the following:
I’m a bona fide marriage expert. Not because I have some fancy Ivy League degree hanging on my wall, nor because I’m a published marriage counselor—no, I’m a marriage expert [...]
16 Sep
Where Does God Being Love Leave Us? (And Get Back Here, Atheists!)
“God is Love.”
Great! It’s the richest philosophical/religious proposition possible.
What it means to us Christians, though, is that (what with our being made in God’s image, and all) we, too, are supposed to be All Love All the Time.
Not so great. Instant fail.
Because who can be about love all the time? Life is hard—and when it’s hard, it’s [...]
6 Jun
Mr. “Wasn’t Having Any” Responds to Christians
The other day I posted a piece called Jesus the Decider: Who Gets Into Heaven?, in which I recounted a conversation I’d overheard between a proselytizing Christian and “a guy who Wasn’t Having Any,” whom I referred to as WHA.
WHA’s Big Point was that there is no logical basis for Christians to so heavily rely upon John [...]
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