“Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.” (Psalm 100:3)
My primary goal: to run as far away from that pasture as possible.
Beyond the Flock was created in May of 2008 by an individual who wishes to remain wholly anonymous. The primary mission of Beyond the Flock is to seek out absurd, incoherent, invalid, or incorrect claims and beliefs, and bludgeon them to death with reason. Frequently, these claims and beliefs will include those of the religious variety, although from time to time they include political claims as well as a variety of others. The guiding principle here, though, is that rational thought is the most valuable tool we have in sorting out the world around us. My aim is to always back up any claims that I make with sound rational argument.
Beyond the Flock welcomes your feedback, comments, thoughts, etc; these can be voiced either as comments to my posts or through email at beyondtheflock@gmail.com. For more, check out the inaugural posting here: http://beyondtheflock.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/not-all-those-who-wander-are-lost-a-mission/
Those that truly belong to God live by faith, not sight. I HAVE TO SEE IT, TOUCH IT, FEEL IT! Your site is of Satan, oh, but I guess you don’t believe in him either. Keep this up, you will! I have the entire Bible backing me up!Cowards don’t show their face! You are just just a mindless jibbering coward.
haha ^^ comment is the sweetest thing I’ve seen on the net today.
Yeah… She comes around every now and then to yell at me. Quite amusing.
1. Response to the article:
I think that, as much as art deals with meaning in general, it relates very strongly to the artist’s sense of meaning. Art becomes his means of transmitting what he finds to be valuable, weaving it into a work of pure beauty that intoxicates the target audience into seeing the beauty of his beliefs, the beliefs that form his identity.
2. Response to responses:
True faith does not blindly accept “facts” given by someone or something you have no reason to trust. True faith is always backed and inspired by reason and the power of the human mind. While old texts contain valuable truths, they mean nothing unless brought into the context of human reason. Blindly accepting the bible as the source of all truth means nothing if you cannot prove it to be a source of truth.
1. (I think this was supposed to be on my Art post, but I’ll take it) YES YES YES coolest comment ever, *thumbsup*
2. Dangerous territory, and I’m not sure I can agree with you there. If you start making the claim that faith is informed by reason, it’s a slippery slide down the slope of agnosticism. This is simply because there are *so* *many* reasons not to believe in god, from straight-up lack of evidence to the problem of evil. A more stable tactic is to grant that faith, specifically a belief in god, requires no evidence and indeed cannot *possibly* have evidence – as such, it is a pure and entirely separate entity, immune from reasoned attacks. (For more on this position, see Heidegger.)