"I will "try on" atheism for a year. For the next
12 months I will live as if there is no God. I will not pray, read the Bible for inspiration, refer to God as the cause of things or hope that God might intervene and change my own or someone else's circumstances.
I will read atheist "sacred texts" -- from Hobbes and Spinoza to Russell and Nietzsche to the trinity of New Atheists, Hitchens, Dawkins and Dennett. I will explore the various ways of being atheist, from naturalism (Voltaire, Dewey, et al) to the new 'religious atheists' (Alain de Botton and Ronald Dworkin). I will also attempt to speak to as many actual atheists as possible -- scholars, writers and ordinary unbelievers -- to learn how they have come to their non-faith and what it means to them. I will visit atheist gatherings and try it on.
In short, I will do whatever I can to enter the world of atheism and live, for a year, as an atheist. It's important to make the distinction that I am not an atheist. At least not yet. I am not sure what I am." HP
Sad, Mr. Bell has strayed so far down the path as to dabble in atheism. It seems the roots of his path to a heretic began by never allowing the temporal to bend to the spiritual, but rather always wanted the spiritual to bend to his temporal, world views. But this notion of WASTING 2014 PLAYING MR. ATHEIST is very dangerous, for as James warns us.... Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James 4:14
On his firing see link below...
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2013/08/sda-issues-ryan-bell-fired.html
I will read atheist "sacred texts" -- from Hobbes and Spinoza to Russell and Nietzsche to the trinity of New Atheists, Hitchens, Dawkins and Dennett. I will explore the various ways of being atheist, from naturalism (Voltaire, Dewey, et al) to the new 'religious atheists' (Alain de Botton and Ronald Dworkin). I will also attempt to speak to as many actual atheists as possible -- scholars, writers and ordinary unbelievers -- to learn how they have come to their non-faith and what it means to them. I will visit atheist gatherings and try it on.
In short, I will do whatever I can to enter the world of atheism and live, for a year, as an atheist. It's important to make the distinction that I am not an atheist. At least not yet. I am not sure what I am." HP
Sad, Mr. Bell has strayed so far down the path as to dabble in atheism. It seems the roots of his path to a heretic began by never allowing the temporal to bend to the spiritual, but rather always wanted the spiritual to bend to his temporal, world views. But this notion of WASTING 2014 PLAYING MR. ATHEIST is very dangerous, for as James warns us.... Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James 4:14
On his firing see link below...
http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2013/08/sda-issues-ryan-bell-fired.html