Introducing the OriginBlog AKA why the fights worth fighting.
Well, how ’bout that? Another skeptic blog on the internet, how interesting?
I had the idea for this blog a while back, when I was still in the infant stage of skepticism. I had been thrown into a wily vortex of confusion that struck me after I couldn’t convince myself of:
- Rabbinical Authority
- Modern Judaism
- Biblical Inerrancy
- Biblical History
- An Almighty God
And boy was it fun. Fun, like when one first found out how to change a tire: appreciative of the new experience, but damn if it wasn’t a nuisance. When my new ideas were discovered by the people around me, I was afraid. Would the rest of my life be a complete cutoff from everybody I know because I don’t share their ideas?
I countered anyways. I read skeptical books and blogs. I countered arguments left and right. I was a fighter for the cause.
And then it phased out. People around me no longer cared. I won.
The Best Defense is a Great Offense
Why? What caused people, who earlier were offensive and judging, to end up respecting my ideas and carefully weigh them? I guarantee you it wasn’t my respect for their beliefs, or my live and let live policy; I had none of those. People respect those who respect their own beliefs.
Staying in the closet reinforces the idea that one has something worth hiding. Respecting nonsensical beliefs is just as morally suspect as having them. Ignoring the debate for the sake of peace delays the inevitable.
It is in honor of these concepts that I start my side of the debate on this bastion of new media.
P.S. In case you didn’t figure it out. My first post was a joke. More on that later.
- Posted Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
- Filed under Personal, Closet, Introduction, Atheism.
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5 Responses
10 bucks says you were frum.
Define “frum”. Being sephardic, I never had to deal with the term. It seems to me that it means different things to people.
Point taken.
Welcome to the blog world. Sorry, but I think your template sucks. It’s totally unclear that the side content boxes are related to the main content box. (i.e. comments, date to blog post, and commenter name to comment). I was looking for dates of posts for a whole minute before I figured out what was going on.
Thanks Joe, I had a feeling that was the case, but I’m debating what the best way to fix it is. I have a variety of ideas to help it out and I hope to implement them soon.