en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/645076 Comments by espian2 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-days-of-infamy/#IDComment34043506 Well, I cannot help but admire your admission of your racism. That is a very good beginning. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:35:25 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-days-of-infamy/#IDComment34043506 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-days-of-infamy/#IDComment34043248 OK, specifically and objectively prove-ably, what in the content of his character? Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:34:19 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-days-of-infamy/#IDComment34043248 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-days-of-infamy/#IDComment34043087 Please help me understand what your use and capitalization of the word IDIOT adds to any discourse. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:33:23 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-days-of-infamy/#IDComment34043087 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-days-of-infamy/#IDComment34042784 It certainly is very sad and depressing that 279 soldiers have been killed during President Obama"s administration. It is also very sad and depressing that 4,469 were killed during President Bush's administration. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:31:46 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-days-of-infamy/#IDComment34042784 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-days-of-infamy/#IDComment34028059 Well, I am reading your comment, and it doesn't advance my understanding one bit. Show me the substance, please. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:28:44 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-days-of-infamy/#IDComment34028059 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/09/10/lies/#IDComment33974952 Chip on my shoulder? Maybe. I do resent that mudslinging and name calling have replaced civil discourse and honest debate. But I think mine is the mildest comment on the whole blog. I see no revealing of truth here--from either side. Rather, only name calling and vindictive. But perhaps there are comments that have truth rather than mere insult. If so, show them to me, please. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:13:02 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/09/10/lies/#IDComment33974952 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/09/10/lies/#IDComment33954888 Please--give me three facts. Not opinions, facts. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:08:26 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/09/10/lies/#IDComment33954888 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/09/10/lies/#IDComment33953642 The only thing I read in this blog and these comments, no matter the point of view of the writer, is meanness. Name calling and insult are the weapon of the factless. How can either convince anyone of anything aside from the meanness of the writer? Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:03:31 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/09/10/lies/#IDComment33953642 http://www.atheistrev.com/2007/02/then-what-do-you-believe.html#IDComment32745628 I was raised Catholic, and came to a point where absolutely everything was stripped away--possessions, beliefs, esteem, desire to survive--everything. I call it the electromagnetic theory of spiritual development. When we are born, the magnet is activated. Everything we experience, hear, are told, etc. indiscriminately clumps on to us. Then comes a time that by circumstance, illness, trauma, death of a loved one or such, the plug gets pulled. Everything drops off, and we see it all laid before us. Then we make choices. What will I reclaim? What can stay away? Who do I chose to be? In my own process, I examined every aspect of the faith I had inherited. Much did not fit. Much did. I found that when it came to the bare essentials, I had little problem believing. When it got too fleshed out--that was a problem, but had nothing to do with the essentials, as expressed in various credal statements. I know that if it did not fit and did not appeal to reason, it would not be reclaimed. Also, I came to believe that many people had ben deeply hurt by Catholicism as they experienced it, and felt that I could help them heal as a priest. That's a start, i hope, to responding. Tue, 1 Sep 2009 04:20:08 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2007/02/then-what-do-you-believe.html#IDComment32745628 http://www.atheistrev.com/2007/02/then-what-do-you-believe.html#IDComment32628029 I trust you are joking! Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:07:54 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2007/02/then-what-do-you-believe.html#IDComment32628029 http://www.atheistrev.com/2007/02/then-what-do-you-believe.html#IDComment32621409 My view oversimplified: faith appeals to reason. If something doesn't appeal to reason, it's not worth believing in. You give a good outline of that process, smart_alec. Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:25:45 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2007/02/then-what-do-you-believe.html#IDComment32621409 http://www.atheistrev.com/2007/02/then-what-do-you-believe.html#IDComment32617971 A number of years ago I was invited to represent all of Christianity in a dialogue with a Muslim Imam. The dialogue was being sponsored by the Muslim student organization on the university campus where I served as Catholic Campus Minster. Because I was guest, the Imam went first, laying out six basic principles of Islam. When it was my turn, I stated I had just learned that I am a Muslim of the Catholic persuasion, and talked about how the principles laid out by the Imam were also held by much of mainstream Christianity and principles in which I, too, believe. In his reply the Imam said I was wrong. I did not believe what I claimed to believe. From there, the dialogue turned into debate. He would not accept a single belief I shared with the group as being what I believed. This approach helped me better understand some of 9/11. The Muslim students, by the way, were very chagrined and apologetic. I suspect I am also an atheist of the Catholic persuasion. There are very few criticisms of Christianity made by the atheists on blogs I have read and continue to read with which I, a Catholic priest, would disagree. That is why I have joined this blog--to purify my faith. I am here for whatever dialogue might emerge. I am not here for debate or .prostylization. I hope to have a good time! Thanks. Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:39 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2007/02/then-what-do-you-believe.html#IDComment32617971