Comments on: Dawkins Again and Consolation

By: Richard Harty

Richard Harty — Sat, 12 May 2007 09:08:36 +0000

To steve and jon birch,

Thank you for clarifying your statements!

By: jon birch

jon birch — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:31:54 +0000

i agree with you richard… i was questioning my own lack of sensitivity and suggesting that we need to be sensitive on a global scale also… i said it badly.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 10 May 2007 12:09:30 +0000

Sorry for the confusion Richard Harty .
I was referring to Richard Dawkins in my analogy to the Apostle Paul and you are right to say that” Discussing what one believes and stoning people is quite a different process.” I guess the analogy does break down at that point. My point was in fact a comparison with the fervor that Saul persecuted the Christians believing that he was preserving what he believed to be the truth. Then God got in the equation and messed everything up! It is my hope and belief that God not being a respecter of persons will preform the same miracle to all that seek the truth for He is that truth!

By: Richard Harty

Richard Harty — Thu, 10 May 2007 08:23:15 +0000

Steve stated

“Richard reminds me of the Apostle Paul, Paul was vehemently seeking out Christians to stone them in effort to do what he believed to be the truth until God got a hold of him and revealed to him the real truth that being Jesus Christ The Way The Truth and The Life”

I am assuming you are implying that I am a model of the pre-converted Saul. I would point out that Saul was using a method of the OT god to wipe out what he considered to be a threat to God’s chosen people.

Discussing what one believes and stoning people is quite a different process. I may be wrong, but I see no indication what-so-ever that I am stoning Christians metaphorically or otherwise.