Psiclops
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Seems there has been only one poster here in any way in tune with Dowd so I hesitate to get involved.
I expected as always to be against the Rev and for Alex but as the dialogue went along I realised the opposite was true for me.
I do happen to agree with the 97-9% so his catastrophe stance I thought was pretty realistic.
It seemed to me that Alex's main beef was that Dowd calls himself a Christian with a Rev handle when he patently doesn't follow Christian fundamentalism.
But I remember coming across him many years ago through what's know as the New Thought movemen - that's a number of what may be called churches like Religious Science and Unitarianism which have a very broad view of religion completely the opposite to fundamentalism. They are into most of the things we discuss here without the Jesus tag.
Yes I do think Dowd is slightly deceptive with his Christian label but that's forgiveable because I imagine that gives him a listening ear with people of a Christian bent who might otherwise turn away. And I could very much associate with his mythical interpretation of the Bible.
All together I wasn't the slightest bit interested in whether or not he believes in the supernatural but I was interested in his 'post doom' scenarios and how pockets of survivors from climate catastrophe might build a new world.
Sadly Alex's constant bids to try to involve Dowd in an argument he didn't want to engage in, meant I learned very little.
I expected as always to be against the Rev and for Alex but as the dialogue went along I realised the opposite was true for me.
I do happen to agree with the 97-9% so his catastrophe stance I thought was pretty realistic.
It seemed to me that Alex's main beef was that Dowd calls himself a Christian with a Rev handle when he patently doesn't follow Christian fundamentalism.
But I remember coming across him many years ago through what's know as the New Thought movemen - that's a number of what may be called churches like Religious Science and Unitarianism which have a very broad view of religion completely the opposite to fundamentalism. They are into most of the things we discuss here without the Jesus tag.
Yes I do think Dowd is slightly deceptive with his Christian label but that's forgiveable because I imagine that gives him a listening ear with people of a Christian bent who might otherwise turn away. And I could very much associate with his mythical interpretation of the Bible.
All together I wasn't the slightest bit interested in whether or not he believes in the supernatural but I was interested in his 'post doom' scenarios and how pockets of survivors from climate catastrophe might build a new world.
Sadly Alex's constant bids to try to involve Dowd in an argument he didn't want to engage in, meant I learned very little.