tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092454655191120011.post3432486056738223311..comments2023-09-18T02:51:29.948-07:00Comments on Get your adverbs here.: darkness warshed over the dudestephyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10047873385595074389noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092454655191120011.post-75166369588180728692009-06-02T20:51:17.718-07:002009-06-02T20:51:17.718-07:00Wow. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of using...Wow. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of using the personal life of someone you don't know as an object lesson. I know David Bazan is a public figure, and I know he's made public statements on the matter, but he's also a PERSON, and I know I for one would be deeply hurt to have my faith -- to say nothing of the rearing of my children -- dissected on a blog.<br /><br />Whatever Laurenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02584075925362023202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092454655191120011.post-66828029596129572962009-06-02T16:31:15.240-07:002009-06-02T16:31:15.240-07:00Hi Elijah,
yeah, it really looks like you were say...Hi Elijah,<br />yeah, it really looks like you were saying Bazan's mindset is stupid. You said that what he was doing with his thought process is "just stupid and cannot be true." So I guess whoever reads it can decide that for themselves. <br /><br />And before that you said "I would have thought that Bazan was a fairly intelligent guy, but this sort of nonsense is ridiculously naïve." <br /><brstephyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10047873385595074389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092454655191120011.post-87681649079921983682009-06-02T15:28:03.182-07:002009-06-02T15:28:03.182-07:00Hopefully those who read this blog can see that I ...Hopefully those who read this blog can see that I did not say that David Bazan's way of thinking was "stupid." I was commenting on a certain mindset, which may or may not be Bazan's. However, it <I>is</I> stupid to think one can be objective and act without any assumptions at all. If that's the case, I stand by my comments. (Which is not at all the same as calling David Bazan stupid; he's Elijah the Tishbitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01471920424032022448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092454655191120011.post-60279446347114442192009-04-29T13:08:00.000-07:002009-04-29T13:08:00.000-07:00So true. But also hopeful to admit that most likel...So true. But also hopeful to admit that most likely we ARE wrong, at least on a lot of things, and that it doesn't matter because God has got it under control... <br /><br />As painful as it is, I also think at some level, there is enormous relief admitting we don't know everything. And then also great joy in finding that doubts, and even letting go of faith, actually strengthen faith, because inKarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17713368037563187882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092454655191120011.post-52721510550048555112009-04-29T07:16:00.000-07:002009-04-29T07:16:00.000-07:00Yeah, I think deep honesty is the most important t...Yeah, I think deep honesty is the most important thing. I think it's also the most difficult thing because it's painful. It means we have to admit that maybe we don't know everything.<br /><br />The notion of perfect faith is weird, because what does 'perfect faith' look like? I think that faith is messy and gray and not black-and-white, and I think that's the reason people want to explain it stephyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10047873385595074389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092454655191120011.post-4877374331196995222009-04-29T05:28:00.000-07:002009-04-29T05:28:00.000-07:00Faith is a tenuous thing with it is all in our han...Faith is a tenuous thing with it is all in our hands... Some people have no need for God - they have their airtight faith clinched with the idea of God, the bible and a Jesus who WAS (rather than IS) - there is no room or need for a crucified, risen and living God who is active in the world when we can handle salvation for ourselves (and others) so well on our own.<br /> But holiness is not Karahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17713368037563187882noreply@blogger.com