http://www.jamesbay.org/index.php?disp=comments en-CA http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:26:12 +0000 Al [Visitor] c8@http://www.jamesbay.org/ I appreciate your statement:<br /> "I believe that if we strip away the liars, dogmatists, masochists, red-neck authoritarians, shameless theologians, and political opportunists, that the remaining half-a-dozen Christians will definitely be among the most sublime and vital human beings to have ever lived."<br /> You have done a great job of categorizing some of our best failures.<br /> As a person who endeavors to live like Christ, I agree that there are too many people wearing the label that aren't living up it. I admit, you can find all of the above at one time or another. I'm sorry. And I'm trying to be not one of them.<br /> Thanks for the hope that:<br /> --there are some who actually live out the actions of the One we say we follow, and<br /> --we (Christians) haven't totally burned you.<br /> And Benjamin, I suspect you are right on the money.<br /> "I believe that if we strip away the liars, dogmatists, masochists, red-neck authoritarians, shameless theologians, and political opportunists, that the remaining half-a-dozen Christians will definitely be among the most sublime and vital human beings to have ever lived."
You have done a great job of categorizing some of our best failures.
As a person who endeavors to live like Christ, I agree that there are too many people wearing the label that aren't living up it. I admit, you can find all of the above at one time or another. I'm sorry. And I'm trying to be not one of them.
Thanks for the hope that:
--there are some who actually live out the actions of the One we say we follow, and
--we (Christians) haven't totally burned you.
And Benjamin, I suspect you are right on the money.
]]> http://www.jamesbay.org/index.php?title=the-cults-of-the-printing-press&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c8 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:08:42 +0000 Benjamin Madison [Visitor] c7@http://www.jamesbay.org/ Interesting. What did McLuhan have to say about the internet? I wonder what he'd think about blogs and blogging, about YouTube? It seems to me the media was always in the hands of priests and/or professionals, until the internet. Now we are seeing the development of media that really might belong to the people.... http://www.jamesbay.org/index.php?title=the-cults-of-the-printing-press&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7