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Dancing with Unicorns
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:16 am
by Canuckster1127
Put up as an opportunity to hear from an Eastern Orthodox Archbishop in British Columbia.
Very blunt comments that address how he views creationism and protestant fundamentalism.
No, I haven't gone Eastern Orthodox. This just came up as a related video to something else I was looking at and I thought it was worth putting up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE6Y-HMO ... re=related
Re: Dancing with Unicorns
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:38 am
by RickD
A quote from the video:
"Creationists do not have faith. If they had faith, they would not be so panicked, and hysterical, about the advances in science and understanding and knowledge. But, the truth is, they do not have faith, they only have religion. And, it is not faith that is being challenged, by evolution and these other advances in knowledge. It is ideological religion, that is being challenged. If these people had faith, they would not be challenged by these advances, at all. And if your faith is undermined or shaken by evolution, the knowledge of the age of the earth, and these other advances in science, then I want to submit that you do not have faith. That you only have an ideological religion, that has been programmed into you. But, that you do not have a living faith, in God, in the grace of the Holy Spirit, in our Lord God and Savior, Jesus Christ."
There is a lot of truth in that quote, IMO. It kind of reminds me of when people say " If such and such, is discovered, or true, then what does that do to Christianity?"
Other than that specific quote, there seems to be quite a lot of ignorance on his part about "creationism". His view seems very narrow. And he also, seems to think he's closer to God, because he's not a western, evangelical, protestant. At least that's what I see, anyways.
Re: Dancing with Unicorns
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:55 am
by Canuckster1127
Yes. I picked up on that as well. There didn't seem to be a clear understanding as to the delineations even within creationism, of which even Theistic Evolution is a sub-set.
Re: Dancing with Unicorns
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:13 am
by Proinsias
Thanks for the link Bart, he's an interesting chap, might have to pick up one of his books.