{"id":998,"date":"2009-04-23T06:17:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T14:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=998"},"modified":"2009-04-23T10:28:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T18:28:19","slug":"roger-you-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"Roger, you devil…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven months ago I railed against Roger <\/a>Ebert because he was apparently a creationist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recently he has blogged again with an entry called “How I believe in God<\/a>.”\u00a0 In it he says he is not an atheist, believer or agnostic but rather some sort of mash-up.\u00a0 His views are somewhat close to mine (which maybe I’ll fully reveal in a similar large blog entry at some point), but unlike Ebert I can recognize that I’m agnostic.\u00a0 Admitting that there are unanswered questions means you are Agnostic.\u00a0 I think perhaps Roger is afraid to admit this because most of those Nuns he knew as a child would lump agnostics in with atheists, and he subconsciously doesn’t want to let them down (or feel the “you’re going to hell!” guilt associated with their dissaproval).<\/p>\n

The first comment on\u00a0his new\u00a0blog asserts “sorry, Roger, you’re an Atheist.” Wrong!\u00a0 An atheist contends to KNOW that god doesn’t exist.\u00a0 This notion is just as silly as thinking for sure that he does exist, and certainly nowhere does Ebert profess that he knows God doesn’t exist.\u00a0 In fact, to the contrary he leaves the question quite open (again – this is the agnostic “belief”).<\/p>\n

So, why did I rail against him originally?\u00a0\u00a0 Well, if you look at his blog entry from back then it becomes clear he was answering the questions about creationism not as his own opinions, but as what current creationists think of the issues.\u00a0 He doesn’t state whether he agrees or thinks all of it is hogwash (and he probably thinks neither).\u00a0 But he doesn’t preface the entry with this disclaimer.\u00a0 So, I jumped to conclusions and assumed he was answering in defense of his own views, when in fact he was simply providing fodder for debate (and ad revenue for The Chicago Sun Times which hosts his blog, how clever) …\u00a0and so it turns out I have more in common with RE than I thought.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Terminal was still a horrible movie though….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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