Comments by Ian in OH

Comment #73520 by Ian in OH on September 25, 2007 at 7:25 am

Harry Potter is banned from the library – some families feel it glamorizes evil – but kids can bring their own copies to read.

Christmas is celebrated – Jesus, not Santa – but Halloween is not, to respect those opposed to its focus on fright.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

First, if these kids get presents on Christmas morning, who do they think brings them, with Santa out of the equation?

Second, Halloween is not celebrated because of its focus on fright, huh? This is of course contrasted with warm and fuzzy Yahweh in the Old Testament.

And third, far from glamorizing evil, there's more good lessons on ethics and morality in any one of the Harry Potter books (esp the latter ones) than in the entirety of the Bible. Courage, bravery, loyalty, friendship, self-sacrifice, love...Yeah, why would kids need any exposure to these things when we all know the series is really about getting them to be good little witches and wizards and doing magic (as opposed to worshipping a Middle Eastern carpenter).

2. In the beginning

Comment #34123 by Ian in OH on April 23, 2007 at 9:58 am

"...man evolved purely as the result of a process of random selection."

Mutations are random, natural selection most definitely is not. Why is this so difficult for people to get?

Also, the amazing, although unsurprising thing is that from the Pope to the Archbishop of Canterbury to the heads of the Discovery Institute, if illness strikes, they all get treated by doctors using principles of biology, biochemistry, physiology, and anatomy, all of which are natural sciences that are only made sense of, individually and working together, within an evolutionary context.

3. The Fifth Flea!

Comment #28210 by Ian in OH on March 28, 2007 at 11:03 am

For anyone willing to spend money on the fleas for maybe very good reasons of intellectual honesty and consideration of 'the other side,' I would bet anything 'the other side' is not reciprocating.

4. The Fifth Flea!

Comment #28209 by Ian in OH on March 28, 2007 at 11:00 am

Oh, my kingdom for a big can of Raid.

If the faith of these authors and presumably their intended audience is as strong as they always claim it is, what is the need for these books? Why would a book by Dawkins or any other atheist make any difference or be any kind of threat? Shouldn't it be that 'I'm a Christian and will always be a Christian no matter what any ignorant atheist might say.'

Could it be that after more than 6 months on the NYT Bestseller list, some nerves are starting to fray along the lines of maybe it's not just the evil atheists that are buying and reading TGD.

Could it also be, and this is where the flea analogy is maybe most apt, that sales of any Christian book are liable to increase drastically if browsers in Christian bookstores see the Dawkins name (as opposed to a book titled "The 10 Ways God Has Proven Himself").

In any case, keep up the good work RD. Keep getting up their noses and confronting them at every turn.