tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217153430513050163.post6503702064967771347..comments2024-03-28T19:18:04.235-07:00Comments on Deity Shmeity: An Interview with Sheldon CooperGrundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07339125862340793733noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217153430513050163.post-5575280962960456922013-01-25T18:08:01.119-08:002013-01-25T18:08:01.119-08:00Fantastic interview guys! Thanks for doing it.Fantastic interview guys! Thanks for doing it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07447399292311653805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217153430513050163.post-67494753580112593742013-01-24T20:11:41.511-08:002013-01-24T20:11:41.511-08:00Sure. Email me: grundy[at]hellscoldday.com.Sure. Email me: grundy[at]hellscoldday.com.Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07339125862340793733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217153430513050163.post-79571328224657208812013-01-24T10:30:41.957-08:002013-01-24T10:30:41.957-08:00I love your interview series ! Can I interview you...I love your interview series ! Can I interview you? Pretty please?theObserverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06487813166705644460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217153430513050163.post-17535122223787298822013-01-23T16:01:14.022-08:002013-01-23T16:01:14.022-08:00Any atheist who grew up religious has questioned t...Any atheist who grew up religious has questioned the underlying assumptions of their world view and changed it at least once. I still do this, and I am open to changing it again, it's just that as of yet, I have not seen any compelling reason to do so.Hausdorffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01690401058367596952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217153430513050163.post-14252551030128348882013-01-23T14:51:31.652-08:002013-01-23T14:51:31.652-08:00So atheists are allowed to be skeptical of atheism...So atheists are allowed to be skeptical of atheism? I have not seen this. Very few people seriously question the underlying assumptions of their world and life view. <br /><br />Seriously, I do appreciate you not going with the "brights" language. Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16751516602395247675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217153430513050163.post-6329614128672210562013-01-23T14:47:51.078-08:002013-01-23T14:47:51.078-08:00I would not call them competing views. There was a...I would not call them competing views. There was a lack of precision on many questions. The big thing was they had the tradition of the apostles and they knew who understood that tradition best. They were called apostolic successors or bishops. <br /><br />So when Arius came along they didn't ask if they liked his teaching or not. They asked whether the teaching was apostolic. They knew who Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16751516602395247675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217153430513050163.post-74268657575195866672013-01-23T13:40:26.942-08:002013-01-23T13:40:26.942-08:00Right, skeptical thinking is not allowed. Right, skeptical thinking is not allowed. Sheldon Cooperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17660822618786253558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217153430513050163.post-44774235809562408492013-01-23T13:37:48.861-08:002013-01-23T13:37:48.861-08:00I never realized just how much energy I was spendi...I never realized just how much energy I was spending on cognitive dissonance and trying to defend the indefensible, until after I left. <br /><br />So much stress was gone at that point. My anxiety, and the emotionally symptoms of depression went down quickly.Sheldon Cooperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17660822618786253558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217153430513050163.post-92198804566798746782013-01-23T13:29:30.913-08:002013-01-23T13:29:30.913-08:00Hi Randy.
Of course there were theologians befor...Hi Randy. <br /><br />Of course there were theologians before the Council of Nicaea, some of them all well known to this day. What I meant is that one of the major aims of the council was to establish what exactly they believed Christianity was, how they viewed Jesus, and what books of the Bible they accepted as divine scripture.<br /><br />After Nicaea, all competing views of Jesus, the various Sheldon Cooperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17660822618786253558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217153430513050163.post-5451514681155190512013-01-23T10:31:44.956-08:002013-01-23T10:31:44.956-08:00I completely agree with your assessment of the int...I completely agree with your assessment of the intelligence of fundamentalists. In my experience they are not any smarter or dumber than anyone else, it's just that their religion spends a lot of energy making sure they don't use their intellect looking at the religion skeptically.<br /><br />Hausdorffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01690401058367596952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217153430513050163.post-61518202937207632542013-01-22T13:53:21.173-08:002013-01-22T13:53:21.173-08:00Great interview. I very much agree with your comm...Great interview. I very much agree with your commenting on education and fundamentalism. I know a few fundamentalists, some are quite educated. As a bit of an aside, one is a cancer doc, which I find ironic in that he basically "treats" evolution...anyway... I think you are correct. Many of those people just seem to live in a form of cognitive dissonance. I have a hard time ReasonBeinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07069408274720666142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217153430513050163.post-8835336199286741362013-01-21T16:06:44.668-08:002013-01-21T16:06:44.668-08:00I think much of what we now consider Christianity ...<b>I think much of what we now consider Christianity came out of the Council of Nicaea.</b><br /><br />That is a very strange thing to believe. We have a ton of Christian writings before Nicaea. Ignatius, Clement, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Cyprian, just to name a few. All the major doctrines of Christianity can be found in Christian writers before Nicaea. That is not even considering theRandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16751516602395247675noreply@blogger.com