Comments on: Annoying Street Preachers Annoy Me http://joeygibson.com/2009/04/24/annoying-street-preachers-annoy-me/ Java, Clojure, Scala, Groovy, Ruby, Python, Lisp, Objective-C, OSX, politics, religion, Koine Greek, Tae Kwon Do, Spanish and much more! Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: thomas http://joeygibson.com/2009/04/24/annoying-street-preachers-annoy-me/comment-page-1/#comment-1048 thomas Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:34:29 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=1096#comment-1048 I didn't see them. I didn’t see them.

]]> By: Marty http://joeygibson.com/2009/04/24/annoying-street-preachers-annoy-me/comment-page-1/#comment-898 Marty Fri, 01 May 2009 12:47:19 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=1096#comment-898 Jesus: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6) I think this pretty much sums it up. Jesus: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)

I think this pretty much sums it up.

]]> By: Scot http://joeygibson.com/2009/04/24/annoying-street-preachers-annoy-me/comment-page-1/#comment-889 Scot Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:10:28 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=1096#comment-889 Quite apart from the fact that if you're insisting on a literal interpretation of the Old Testament you're quickly tied in knots because there's stuff in there that no modern person can possibly believe as literal truth. Leviticus (the book that causes most of these problems) is a 6th-5th century B.C. manual for Jewish priestly ritual. It highlights the problem with all literal interpretations of any holy text: who is doing the interpretation and why they are interpreting it any particular way. Which shows that a "literal" interpretation is no more valid than any other interpretation: it simply is informed by your particular spiritual tradition, an interpretation from a tradition. And the hellfire-and-brimstone tradition that likes to claim ultimate truth on interpretation of the Christian Bible is simply another one of the available traditions. Of course, trying to argue this to a devout believer of that particular tradition is usually pointless almost from any viewpoint, Christian, other religious, or atheist. Quite apart from the fact that if you’re insisting on a literal interpretation of the Old Testament you’re quickly tied in knots because there’s stuff in there that no modern person can possibly believe as literal truth.

Leviticus (the book that causes most of these problems) is a 6th-5th century B.C. manual for Jewish priestly ritual. It highlights the problem with all literal interpretations of any holy text: who is doing the interpretation and why they are interpreting it any particular way. Which shows that a “literal” interpretation is no more valid than any other interpretation: it simply is informed by your particular spiritual tradition, an interpretation from a tradition. And the hellfire-and-brimstone tradition that likes to claim ultimate truth on interpretation of the Christian Bible is simply another one of the available traditions. Of course, trying to argue this to a devout believer of that particular tradition is usually pointless almost from any viewpoint, Christian, other religious, or atheist.

]]> By: Fred Goff http://joeygibson.com/2009/04/24/annoying-street-preachers-annoy-me/comment-page-1/#comment-887 Fred Goff Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:26:20 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=1096#comment-887 Those kinds of preachers annoy the heck out of me, too. I have a friend who is B'ahai, and they basically believe what you do. I've always found it logically inconsistent. Paths that travel in fundamentally different directions can't go to the same place. However, I do believe that while there is only one path, everyone is given the opportunity to see it and decide whether or not they'll take it. Those kinds of preachers annoy the heck out of me, too.

I have a friend who is B’ahai, and they basically believe what you do. I’ve always found it logically inconsistent. Paths that travel in fundamentally different directions can’t go to the same place.

However, I do believe that while there is only one path, everyone is given the opportunity to see it and decide whether or not they’ll take it.

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