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Clearing up the confusion.

Craig has responded to my last rebuttal, but he misunderstood.
Craig started off like this,
"One of the big issues Kat opened up is the false pretenses of most religions. Among her complaints are:

* Organized religion is about money and expensive lifestyle.
* Organized religion is never open to new ideas."

Tenant 1: Organized religion is about money and expensive lifestyles.

I did say this;
"I despise organized religion for it's money grubbing, it's expensive lifestyles, but I blame the lack of answers for the main reason I dislike religion in general."
Craig thinks I meant churches, I never said churches, I said organized religion.
There is a huge difference to me.
The big organized religious churches and groups he mentions in his post is what I was talking about, not each and every individual church in America, because I do know that some churches are excellent in their communities, actually taking the money they raise from tithes and placing it back into the community through shelters and food banks, help and welfare programs.
I'm a huge supporter of the Salvation Army's kettle drive every year because I know the good that they do.
I meant the big organized evangelical groups on tv, the ones who sit in golden chairs, wear pounds of makeup and live in million dollar homes, go on evangelical cruises to celebrate their faith and raise money.
It's bull.
Them, the fakes, the frauds, the ones who pray on the devout and use them for their own financial gains.

And yes, let's talk about the hypocrites who do as I say, not as I do.
They talk the talk, but never walk the walk.
They claim to be Christian, yet every chance they get to judge someone, turn down their nose, they do it.
The majority of people who claim to be Christian are fakes.
They say one thing and do completely another.
Craig says, "I believe the real percentage of genuine believers would be several orders of magnitude smaller."
You got that right Craig.

The other thing Craig took from my rebuttal was this point,
Tenant #2: Organized religion is never open to new ideas.

This is what I said,
"That's why I like science. It tests, it comes up with answers, and is always testing and changing it's answers and theories based on new information.
Religion is the same exact answer no matter what the question is, no matter how much new evidence is thrown at it, the answers will always be the same."

Craig said this,
"Here, I have to disagree and say that while there are some sticks in the mud, this statement proves that you're not up on just how dynamic a field theology tends to be."

What I meant was, religion has the bible, that's it, that's it's center of information, the holy book of all answers.
That's where preachers turn to when someone asks a question, that's what the proselytizers use to convert the sinners, the book of all God's orders and answers.
Field theology is different, and I never mentioned field theology, and so it doesn't hold with what I actually said therefore, doesn't enter into this rebuttal.

I would like to ask Craig a question though.
I have noticed in his posts during these talks, that he never actually types out God, he types it out like this a lot, "G-d's and G-d".
Why?
Is there something offensive to actually typing out God?
I know people get upset when I don't capitalize god, but to not actually type it out at all has me confused.

Comments

this has been very interesting for me to read...I appreciate you posting it all...

about the "G-d"

Judaism does not prohibit writing the Name of God per se; it prohibits only erasing or defacing a Name of God. However, observant Jews avoid writing any Name of God casually because of the risk that the written Name might later be defaced, obliterated or destroyed accidentally or by one who does not know better.



****copied from jewfaq.org

Wow, thanks, I had no idea. I'm rusty on my Messianic/Jew information.
I really appreciate the answer.

Brian responded well to the question about writing out the name of G-d or the L-rd. (To be honest, when I'm blogging really fast, I don't always catch it every time and sometimes type it out fully.) All I would add is that my understanding of the origins of this tradition is that it is rooted in the commandment on taking the name of the L-rd in vain. It is generally regarded as a sign of respect to the Holy One of Israel. But those are just details around Brian's description of the basic reasons. Didn't mean to cause confusion, Kat. Just being myself. :) I'll have a response either tonight or soon thereafter on my blog.