Also new today is 'Verse of the day' from BibleGateway.com, which I shall be applying to a strictly scientific process (faith) to rate on the 'Inspirationometre™'. Each days verse will be judged on its value to my understanding of the meaning of life, morality and the level of engagement it has instilled. Each grade awarded is measured against the centi-inspirationometre. The higher the measurement, the higher its value to myself (and maybe to all of God's creation).
In addition to this, I shall be enticing my local readership more, by offering a weather and tide report each day. Again, a lot of what I am putting out - especially for local matters - have a lot of relevancy to my own day-to-day life; dog walking on Long Rock beach being one of them.
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Posts today include a hilarious video from The Young Turks, about how passengers dealt with a drunk man who had threatened to choke them on a flight from Reykjavik to New York, and another video by William Tapley - a Christian numerologist - who argues that God allowed the 20 children at the Sandy Hook shootings to die. Not much worth reporting on today, unfortunately.
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 Divine command theorists do not deserve an audience. In this post, Chris Hallquist (The Incredible HallQ) takes Christian apologist, Randal Rauser to task for - amongst other things - his psychotic defence of blowing up a bus load of children being a moral act if ordered by God. In defending the likes of William Lane Craig - who has repeatedly defended atrocities as moral acts of God - Rauser gives credence to his ideas. Do we really want to give these people a voice? I can understand why we do - it makes them easy targets as moral monsters - but engaging in this line of discussion makes me feel a bit dirty. I mean, if people really believe that - if commanded by God - to kill someone, is that really someone you want (or even can) have a rational debate with? By kicking these apologists firmly into touch, we starve them of the audience they crave. Maybe, just maybe, we can prevent others from learning of their musings on what they laughably call morality. | Royal Cornwall and Bodmin hospitals have unsafe staffing levels, says Care Quality Commission
Two of Cornwall's largest hospitals have been criticised in a report by the Care Quality Commission, the Labour Party reveals.
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Inspirationometre™
“that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.” 2 Corinthians 5:19-20 NIV
| Total value | 0 c-im |
| Adds to my understanding of the meaning of life | 0 c-im |
| Inherent morality | 0 c-im |
| Level of engagement instilled | 0 c-im |
Comment: Nope. I don't believe He exists so the bible is an irrelevance.
What do you think of the new approach? Is there anything you would like me to approach with more consideration? What else on this site do you think needs changing? Leave a comment below to let me know.
n.b. I am working on a new site that will further delineate between my increasingly diverse interests, but for the time being this blog will have to suffice. I'll let you know more when the roll-out date approaches.
Love the Digest, your dog is very cute! Really get the localism. Inspirationometer™ is Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Long Ben Avery.
ReplyDeleteYes, she's very cute. I don't think I could put up with the piss and shit if she were not so!
I misspelled InspirationometRE. It was meant to be am allusion to a linear metre. So thanks for bring it to my attention.