On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 07:55:31 -0800 (PST), Gerald Kelleher
wrote:

On Sunday, January 4, 2015 7:17:01 AM UTC-8, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 1/4/15 12:39 AM, Tim wrote:
Harry, after reading the article and your responses to various posts, I jist have to ask- are you shoving anti-religion down people's throats?

Just curious...


No, Tim. I have no plans to go knocking on doors and asking people if
they've found agnosticism, nor do I have any interest in politicians or
legislation outlawing religion or what beliefs people practice in their
homes, places of worship or religious schools. In return, I'd like
similar courtesies from the religious.

The measure of a man can't really be made without first coming to know the purpose of his acts and what he thinks as opposed to relying on hearsay or gossip. As a Christian I have come to know the convictions of those who draw their anti-faith conclusions from denominational Christianity and its failings or perhaps those who understand Christian beliefs via very simplified readings of the Bible.

"If anyone shall set the authority of Holy Writ against clear and manifest reason, he who does this knows not what he has undertaken; for he opposes to the truth not the meaning of the Bible, which is beyond his comprehension, but rather his own interpretation, not what is in the Bible, but what he has found in himself and imagines to be there." St Augustine

The quote from St Augustine was used by the astronomer Galileo and rings true for many Christians in that the Bible,at least for some, doesn't represent dictates but a chart for stormy seas of daily life and the calm with which a genuine Christian deals with things - an acquired individual thing rather than a group ideology.

Well said, but probably wasted on the intended audience.