Comments on: Questions I Can’t Answer http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/01/13/questions-i-cant-answer/ Wed, 16 May 2012 16:55:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: waffles http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/01/13/questions-i-cant-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-1987 waffles Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:12:21 +0000 http://wafflesatnoon.com/?p=149#comment-1987 It's about telling your kid there's no Santa. Or the tooth fairy. Or convincing your friend who turned his life around after finding God that he's given his life to a myth. The "Matrix" comparison is used on both sides of the religion debate. Believers and non-believers feel they know the truth and that everyone else is in a fog. Hell, you could use a "Shallow Hal" comparison too. Did Jack Black's friend do him a favor by removing the spell? That question came to mind when I was debating a Christian friend, and I really was out of his league. I could tell he left that debate scratching his head, having doubts, and feeling kind of down. I didn't know if I had done him a favor or if I perhaps should have just let him believe the fantasy that made him so happy. It’s about telling your kid there’s no Santa. Or the tooth fairy. Or convincing your friend who turned his life around after finding God that he’s given his life to a myth.

The “Matrix” comparison is used on both sides of the religion debate. Believers and non-believers feel they know the truth and that everyone else is in a fog. Hell, you could use a “Shallow Hal” comparison too. Did Jack Black’s friend do him a favor by removing the spell?

That question came to mind when I was debating a Christian friend, and I really was out of his league. I could tell he left that debate scratching his head, having doubts, and feeling kind of down. I didn’t know if I had done him a favor or if I perhaps should have just let him believe the fantasy that made him so happy.

]]> By: Wafflette http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/01/13/questions-i-cant-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-1979 Wafflette Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:44:24 +0000 http://wafflesatnoon.com/?p=149#comment-1979 Hmmm... I must have gotten lost somewhere, because I thought the last question was the basis of the Matrix Trilogy... it's about God really, are you sure? Hmmm… I must have gotten lost somewhere, because I thought the last question was the basis of the Matrix Trilogy… it’s about God really, are you sure?

]]> By: waffles http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/01/13/questions-i-cant-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-1660 waffles Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:01:14 +0000 http://wafflesatnoon.com/?p=149#comment-1660 Heh great reply Gregory. I hear that "how can you be moral without god" argument often. People of religion assign "good" and "morality" to their god and somehow don't feel that it can be achieved any other way. The problem is that there are many good and moral people in the world who don't believe in god. Believers can't seem to accept that. Heh great reply Gregory. I hear that “how can you be moral without god” argument often. People of religion assign “good” and “morality” to their god and somehow don’t feel that it can be achieved any other way. The problem is that there are many good and moral people in the world who don’t believe in god. Believers can’t seem to accept that.

]]> By: Gregory http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/01/13/questions-i-cant-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-1659 Gregory Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:33:29 +0000 http://wafflesatnoon.com/?p=149#comment-1659 re: #2 Uh...for what it's worth, I know at least one old man who will pick his nose in a pub while looking you dead in the eye. And then try to shake your hand. re: lives built around obvious lies--that is the basis for all of the major religions. I have a close (xtian) friend who believes that it is impossible to be moral without belief in god. My reply was that I didn't need someone else to tell me what was good or evil (and if he really bought that talking-snake-in-the-garden jazz, he shouldn't either, what with having eaten of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil) re: #2 Uh…for what it’s worth, I know at least one old man who will pick his nose in a pub while looking you dead in the eye. And then try to shake your hand.

re: lives built around obvious lies–that is the basis for all of the major religions. I have a close (xtian) friend who believes that it is impossible to be moral without belief in god. My reply was that I didn’t need someone else to tell me what was good or evil (and if he really bought that talking-snake-in-the-garden jazz, he shouldn’t either, what with having eaten of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil)

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