Where have I been? Well, I've been everywhere, man.
That's a lie. I've been in the same place since my last post.
Any way, I haven't been blogging very much. There simply hasn't been much going on in my life. It's been pretty boring.
The student leadership team at our campus ministry is headed to a conference this weekend. I'm super excited. Our minister just went into the hospital (which is why I'm still awake), and I'm not surprised. Something like that happens every time an important spiritual event is coming.
I haven't blogged at Raycomfortfood in a while. I bop in and out every once in a while to see what's what, but I've got some things to look up before I make a reappearance there. Namely some stuff about predictive prophecies. I was looking there today, hopped a few links and found a bunch of people called the Raytractors.
It's a blog where people contribute their angst about Ray Comfort. I didn't get past the first page, but that whole page makes me sad. I mean, there's a lot of intelligence there. There's also a lot of mudslinging, though. I know that it made me sad when Ray devoted an entire post to me about all the reasons I'm Hell-bound. Ray's got a whole blog devoted to him.
So, then, why have I emailed the one in charge and asked permission to contribute? well, because I have issue with a lot that Ray says and does. Also, I feel as if I can intelligently discuss it without calling Ray and his fan names and berating them (something that, if that first page is any indicator, the blog needs).
I've given the guy my blog's link. I'm actually kind of hoping he'll come and read this post.
My purpose in starting THIS blog was to show people that there are Christians who think. If I could get a word in on this blog, where EVERY ONE is an Atheist who is angry at thoughtless Christians (at least, I didn't recognize any of the contributors as Christian), then how much would that do for God?
Plus, there's quite a few people on the Raytractors blog that I am fond of. Flinging Dust. Weemarryanne. Celtic Chimp. That's not an exhaustive list, mind you. It'd be nice to completely by-pass Ray's censorship and semantics and just talk about what I believe without fear (mostly) of those kind of games.
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Hey Rob, great to see you back and blogging again. Just wanted to say a few things in response:
The Raytractors blog wasn't necessarily set up purely to sling mud at Ray. More than anything, a large number of us were fed up with the restrictive censorship that Ray employs (no URLs, OTT moderation, the time it takes for a comment to go up...), it just wasn't working as a forum for discussion. He was trying to be too much the puppet-master and we weren't happy with it.
As you can see, the new blog is much more dynamic (over 100 posts in a couple of weeks) and all are welcome to contribute. I think a few agnostics are present and we get the occasional theist visitor too.
The fact that we are all united by our general dislike of Ray's methods and our origins are in his blog means that he is referenced more than most, but I think this will settle down and there will be a discussion of wider interests that starts to take shape fairly soon.
Also, the strike action against Ray was, in part, a reaction to him re-branding his blog as 'Atheist Central' an act of such pride and arrogance that I can still scarcely believe it.
In short; he crossed too many lines, too often. We'd all like him to adapt his tone to a more conciliatory one, but you saw what he did to you when you broke ranks, so imagine how little a chance we have!
I hope you're keeping well, it's good to hear from you.
Matt
Hello Rob.
Just popping in to read.
You remind me of me when I was in the Baptist church.
Church activities took up 100% of my life, leading the Youth Group, teaching Sunday School, prayer meetings, outreach ...
I was pretty sure I was going to be a full time minister. I was very keen to train under Campus Crusade for Christ. I was in Zimbabwe then (born & bred). I suspect the most appealling thing about Campus crusad was that their headquarters were in the USA (Florida? if I remember correctly)
All that was 20 years and a lifetime ago.
As Bob Dylan sang "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
Take care, welcome to Raytractors, I like bright, rational people. You strike me as one.
Stew
ps I have 2 blogs, if you check my profile. 2000years is reserved for atheist ranting and Night on the Tiles is my life in France. The 2 together give the whole me.
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