Randy Cassingham's Blog

Give em Hell. And then give em a Get Out of Hell Free card. I like religious jokes, but some some of them don't have a sense of humor.

I can see you're not anti-Christian. If I hadn't realised that before, the recent TRUE item about the mormon girl would have made me realised it. However, I can't agree with some of your comments about faith:

I am secure in my beliefs, so I not only don't feel a need to justify them, I feel no need to "convert" someone else from their beliefs, even if I don't agree with them

I am secure in my beliefs. The fact that my beliefs tell me something important about the world, which makes a difference, means that I have a duty to show it to others (and that I should listen to others when they fulful their duty to promote what they believe). Obviously, if I offend them in the process then I do no one any good.

It's like the people who feel a need to prove things about their religions. If there was proof, they wouldn't need faith, now would they?!

Do you mean prove things about their religions, such as the fact that they're not self-contradictory nonsense? If so, then I certainly feel the need to show that to others, because it makes a difference to how they view the truth of what I'm living by. If you mean prove the truth of the religion, then you're right, faith wouldn't be appropriate.

You're a professional ranter. You perform a valuable service by constantly pointing out hypocricy, the danger of zero tolerance, and other such things, and trying to prove the importance of acting against them. That doesn't mean you're insecure in your beliefs about them, does it?