Saturday, December 20, 2008

Religion and personalness

What do we mean when we say religion is very personal to every individual. It sounds so very American (and so un-American to deny) but what does it mean?

2 comments:

  1. Please feel free to delete this comment after reading it as I do not want to foist this unto your site.

    My name is Mariano, I blog on “Atheism is Dead.”

    I have been very busy collecting data for an Atheism is Dead project entitled “Answering Atheism” which lists online resources for countering atheism.

    The project consists of lists of hyperlinks to:
    Websites/blogs that specialize in countering atheism.
    Websites/blogs that have partial relevant content.
    Particular essays, article, posts.
    Audio, video and books.

    I have included your website in the partial relevant content category.

    If you are so inclined, I would appreciate it very much if you would announce the launch of project Answering Atheism. You can also go to Atheism is Dead and copy an image/button that you can hyperlink and add to your website - please hyperlink it as:

    http://atheismisdead.blogspot.com/2008/12/answering-atheism-welcome-introduction.html

    Also, please do spread the word amongst your sphere of influence.

    Thank you so much for your time, attention, consideration and ministry.

    aDios,
    Mariano

    PS: Stats—thus far the lists consists of 5 pages of video, 5 pages of articles/essays/posts, 10 pages of audio, 8 pages of books, 9 pages of partially relevant content, and one and a half pages of specialized content.

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  2. It could mean:

    (1) religious belief is "personal" in that it is exempt from objective rational evaluation. "THis is my personal belief!" as if that makes rational discussion unecesary.

    Or, preferably:

    That reason behind a perosn's religious beliefs/practices are based in private experiences that are not so easily discussed.

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