Comments on: Religion vs. faith

By: susan

susan — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:27:00 +0000

my reflection on your last comment…because it challenges the very way we ”do” life…by defining ourselves by what we BELEIVE we give ourselves real or imagined boundaries that others can then judge or evaluate. ouch.
CS Lewis” bold statement about being a spiritual being with a body rather than a human being with a spirit is true…but it stands on the head of how most of us operate in life.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:23:00 +0000

I can get past page 10 in c&p.

Tolstoy is better than dostoyesky but the brothers karamozov is rockin

By: Jonathan Peterson

Jonathan Peterson — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:58:00 +0000

About 1/4 way through Crime and Punishment. I’m waiting for the movies.

By: Annplato

Annplato — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:56:03 +0000

I am like you Jonathan except that I cannot sincerely be part of any church. I am still "swimming alone" in life and guided by a "goal" to be as accepting of other people's convictions as I possibly can, except when it is against "natural" law, or makes judgment over one person’s right(s) to the detriment of another.

But then the definition of personhood is another difficult subject and much controversy is among purist pro-lifers and judicious abortion rights defenders.

A secularist would define personhood of a human being starting at the moment of conception, (interestingly they agree in this with religion indoctrinated fanatics). I disagree; for everything living can be defined as such, except human beings, who even at birth don't have a personhood.

Humans are creatures that are not defined exclusively by their DNA programming,(other than their physical attributes) but learn and decide to act one way or another. Once they lived for about a decade or so they start to define themselves as persons. Even that is not the final person at the end of the "stream", but the general course does start to crystallize into personhood.

To call abortion “murder” (especially in the embryonic stage at which point the “person” cannot survive outside its mother’s womb”) is wrong, because by such definition harvesting of plants or slaughtering of animals are “murder” too.

Even though I follow the teachings of Christ, most Christians consider me to NOT be a “Christian”, and so I no longer call myself that.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:12:10 +0000

I’m mr. Short attention span theatre. I tried to read crime and punishment after lori finisheds it. I gave up after a while.

By: Brice

Brice — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:10:25 +0000

So how much of Tolstoy's late stuff have you read?