Just finished: The Sopranos-Season 2
Now watching: The Sopranos-Season 3
In taking a bit of a break from talking about evolution, I wanted to briefly discuss something even more foundational than “origin” philosphies. That is what people hold as absolutes. I break it down like this:
Christian Absolutes
1. the existence of God/Jesus Christ
2. God’s Word expressed through the Bible
3. God’s Laws/Commands/Moral Codes
These Christian absolutes, as should any absolute, hold firm (for Christians) in any setting at any time or place or universe or whatever. they exist because God is and always will be…independent of anything we as humans comprehend. There is peace in knowing of the promise that something beyond this earthly realm and life exists.
Pagan/Atheistic Absolutes
1. our life on earth followed by Death
2. Science
In trying to understand humanism and the general rejection of Christianity as a whole, these are what I came up with as absolutes for non-Christians. death is finite and absolute. so then with this human existence being all there is, science is the only system that at least attempts to explain life (in what is assumed to be a rational way). Though I personally, as a Christian, debate whether science can be any kind of absolute for a non-Christian for various reasons, I will give science (and pagans) the benefit of the doubt that their absolutes in science exist (for this universe as we know it) whether they have been discovered or not.
Biggest problem/question I have for Non-Christians: what of the consequences of moral relativism? I don’t think society and humans in general would ever function without moral absolutes. if we evolved by chance from animals where did we develop that code? what happens if morality continues to slide further into individually defined ideals? Its happening at an alarming rate both worldwide and in America–and who would argue society is better for it?
Summary: Absolutes are where the real debate lies. Evolution is certainly a tremendous philosophical tool used to try and destroy Christian Absolutes (as I will discuss in future posts), but it isn’t the root issue. What one holds onto–and everyone has to hold on to something less they be always questioning their existence–defines someone. If all you hold on to is your life here and now and elements of science…is that enough? is that all you want? Its hard for me to fathom just accepting this life on earth. if nothing else it appears totally depressing. fortunately there are answers…
LOL some funny musings or whatever
currently watching: The Sopranos-Season 4
–oh man i just was looking through some blog stats and currently the top search to find my blog is “andy biery schmuck”
LOLOLOLOLOL i can’t stop laughing ahahahahahahaha i’m totally proud of that. lol and whats great is i’m 100% certain i’ve never used the word schmuck on my blog. fwiw, the 2nd most popular search to find my blog is weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee because i titled a blog post as such when i bought my nintendo wii.
–so this week the news centered around barack and cheney arguing about gitmo. if you ask me and if i was a terrorist, i’d much rather remain at club gitmo than go to a federal “pound me in the ass” prison here in America. seriously, where would u rather be, amongst your own on some island resort or sent to a federal prison with other American prisoners and guards??? which is likely to be more humane? eh?? lol
–i’m rarely into celebs at all, but since i’ve been watching sopranos i’d have to say that jamie-lynn sigler def moved into my personal top 10 female celebs. of course all of these top 10 fall far behind my lovely fiance’ Abbie.
(is that enough to cover myself?)
–one of the better things that happened to me today was i won an ebay auction for mario party 6. mario party might go down as the only video game u can get chicks to play with u. jake and i decided to get this cause the only mario party we had was the 1st one, the N64 one where you rub your palm raw when you try to win certain games (still awesome)…we wanted a gamecube one to play
–boring stuff…moving out of my apt next weekend back to my parents place till I get hitched…i’m going to denver 1st weekend of june for my youngest sister Bekah’s wedding…Abbie and I are still trying to find a house to rent though we are crossing our fingers on a place we looked at yesterday….Abbie and I’s parents were gonna meet for the first time today but it didnt work out cause my mom got sick…it looks like our families won’t meet till the wedding now…lol i find that funny
well thats it prob time to pass out and go to bed or stay up and watch sopranos or play rock band by myself