This is an essay by a guy named Russel. And for some reason, it bored me to death. My classmates all commented about how he used humor to keep it from being too inflamatory (omg, where is spell check!) but apparently I was too bored by it to even notice. I don't know. I just felt like it was somehow super dry and dull.
Intially, I was really interested and dare I say even excited to read it because I myself am not a Christian and it's so rare to have people admit that and... like... talk about it that, you know, it caught my attention.
And certainly he made some good (haha. I just typed 'god' like four times in a row trying to correct my initial misspelling. Is it a sign?) points and he must have done a pretty good job since, judging by the discussion board, none of the Christians in the class were super pissed or annoyed by it. They didn't even say it was stupid or silly.
But it's not something you can really rationalize out. So what is the point? I guess his title makes it better. It implies that the purpose of the essay is just to defend himself and explain why he is not a Christian. It doesn't say why Christianity doesn't make sense to me or why you shouldn't be a Christian, he just centers it on himself.
But still. It's just not something that lends itself to rational thinking.
It reminds me of a story I heard about that awful, terrible Peter Popoff guy. So he was basically completely torn apart and exposed as a fraud and I think even legally punished in some way or another, yet he continues to sell faith-healing holy water or something on tv.
Anyway, so this one time these people (who were not into the faith healing thing and were more into the debunking thing) were just kind of talking with and interviewing people who had been 'healed' during one of his 'performances'. He did his typical "oh you're healed. I'm going to break your wheel chair now" type of thing and the woman walked. These guys had noticed that the woman had walked a bit to get in and out of her car and to move around in the aisles here and there. Though she was primarily using a wheel chair, she could walk if needed. So when Peter Popoff says "Walk now, you're healed" she gets up out of her wheelchair and takes a few steps and calls in a miracle. So the interviewers were like "Well, couldn't you kind of walk before?" and she said "Well, yeah, I suppose so." and they continued kind of asking her a few more questions which pointed out that maybe he wasn't so magical afterwards. She admited that it was all true and good points but then at the end she claimed "But I still believe!"
I mean, when you're dealing with blind faith like that, what's the point in using logic. It's just kind of silly.
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