Remonstrance

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I was alarmed by what I heard on Fundy Radio today. One of the more prestigious and highly-education speakers gave this warning:

“Tell your friends and loved ones to stay away from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The occult is nothing to play with, and many are those who’ve learned this lesson the hard way.”

A shiver went down my spine, because I’ve watched Buffy’s vampire-slaying gore before — never more than 10 minutes at a time, of course, it always seemed so silly, but somewhat intriguing — yet I did watch, and I was exposed.

Does this explain why teenagers seem so retarded, I wondered? Those boys did watch Buffy at times…No, no, I know it’s perfectly natural, especially in male teenagers.

Anti-Buffy Christianity is, I think, symptomatic of the impotency of sheltered Christianity.

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PBS.ORG recently aired a 3-part infomercial on the virtues of the religion of atheism, which the producer calls “disbelief” because:

“I’m reluctant to use the word atheist to describe my disbelief, giving that conviction a special title which dignifies that which I deny… This series is a tribute to those who’ve won the right to stand up and be counted.”

He declares all this with the snobbish disdain of the English Gentry (hey, I can do that too). Without the pretentious airs and refined English accents, A Brief History of Disbelief is little more than another profane infomercial from “the Colonies”. (Does he snort Snuff?) In the spirit of such low-budget, late-night dramas, he surrounds himself with a self-congratulating, adoring cast noticeably absent of skeptics or naysayers. He then presumes to speak for Christianity, then dismantles his depictions with the erudite ease of a superior intellect. Ironically, he censures Christianity for censorship while he censors all Christian response.

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He launched this series in response to 9/11, a tragedy which depicts “the danger inherently present in the world’s three monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam,” he claims. But then he launches a three-hour diatribe exclusively against Christianity. How very droll, I daresay! How did we get here again? 9/11 suicide bombers and Christianity…? It is an odd connection.

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From abcnews.com

I’m sorry I missed it, but apparently Kirk Cameron (child star in Growing Pains) and his evangelist friend Ray Comfort pledged to prove the existence of God, indisputably:

“We’d like to show you that the existence of God can be proven, 100 percent, absolutely, without the use of faith… the number one reason that people don’t believe in God is not a lack in evidence, but because of a theory that many scientists today believe to be a fairytale for grownups.” (see Does God Exist? The Nightline Face-Off)

Their evidence was the classical Teleological (argument-by-design) and a few other standard raps, which are decent arguments, and their presentation sounds reasonable enough, but it was more inductive logic, not deductive. You can’t claim 100% proof through inductive logic.

They also have a few (irrational) quirks:

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