Comments for Jonathan Peterson

Comment on Religion vs. faith 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.

Comment on Religion vs. faith 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.

Comment on Religion vs. faith by Brice

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

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

Comment on Bio by Rita Parisi Jordan

Rita Parisi Jordan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:01:47 +0000

Jonathan! I just read the CNN timeline and was a little taken back that they didn’t mention THE ORIGINAL CNN.com team. After writing to CNN reminding them of the original team headed by Harry, Scott and the rest of the team, including you, I started doing online searches and found this page!

I have always had kind memories of you and how we all rode that roller coaster of ups and downs while building CNN Interactive.

I hope all is very well with you as it is for me. I live in Florida with my dear husband very happy doing freelance on the side to still utilize that side of my brain although no longer heavily involved in Internet technologies.

I will continue reading now to see what you are up to but couldn’t wait to send you my best regards!

Comment on Bio by Rita Parisi Jordan

Rita Parisi Jordan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:01:47 +0000