Comments on: Creed by Steve Turner http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/03/09/creed-by-steve-turner/ Where Faith, Opinion, Design and Technology Collide Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:18:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mike http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/03/09/creed-by-steve-turner/#comment-7024 Mike Sun, 11 Mar 2007 07:59:23 +0000 http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/03/09/creed-by-steve-turner/#comment-7024 Have you ever noticed how certain movies become creeds for some ... Easy Rider, Breakfast at Tiffany's, A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, etc. ... even when, on the surface, they are surely anti-creedal. But I guess that's why they call them cult films ... duh. Have you ever noticed how certain movies become creeds for some … Easy Rider, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, etc. … even when, on the surface, they are surely anti-creedal. But I guess that’s why they call them cult films … duh.

]]> By: theinquiringmind http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/03/09/creed-by-steve-turner/#comment-7017 theinquiringmind Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:47:37 +0000 http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/03/09/creed-by-steve-turner/#comment-7017 everyone has a creed they live by, whether they will admit it or not everyone has a creed they live by, whether they will admit it or not

]]> By: sadie hartmann http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/03/09/creed-by-steve-turner/#comment-7015 sadie hartmann Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:52:25 +0000 http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/03/09/creed-by-steve-turner/#comment-7015 That was SO cool. Thank you for finding and sharing. You know, it's getting a little weird now. My personal quests for information and spiritual findings are starting to mesh well with what I am being taught by the elders at church and by Jerram Barrs and John Piper and my husband and Jesus... It's getting surreal. That was SO cool. Thank you for finding and sharing. You know, it’s getting a little weird now. My personal quests for information and spiritual findings are starting to mesh well with what I am being taught by the elders at church and by Jerram Barrs and John Piper and my husband and Jesus…
It’s getting surreal.

]]> By: Bo Salisbury http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/03/09/creed-by-steve-turner/#comment-7010 Bo Salisbury Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:18:38 +0000 http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/03/09/creed-by-steve-turner/#comment-7010 Gee, Mike, thanks. I've often referred to myself as an "amateur sociologist." It's a hobby... I wonder at how people think, but not about math so much or music, although that's fun, too. I like to get to what makes people "tick" -- why they/we do what they/we do, especially in societies or groups. Perhaps it stems from my involvement and deliverance from the cult. Mr. ZS, you may disagree with the modern or postmodern or secular humanist, but you may be quite compatible with the people I would consider the real source of humanism as we know it, Aquinas, then Erasmus, Thomas More, etc.. I know I do... I think there's a lot to be said for a solid classical education (although, that may due to the fact that I have no education, so <strong>any</strong> education looks good). Gee, Mike, thanks. I’ve often referred to myself as an “amateur sociologist.” It’s a hobby… I wonder at how people think, but not about math so much or music, although that’s fun, too. I like to get to what makes people “tick” — why they/we do what they/we do, especially in societies or groups. Perhaps it stems from my involvement and deliverance from the cult.

Mr. ZS, you may disagree with the modern or postmodern or secular humanist, but you may be quite compatible with the people I would consider the real source of humanism as we know it, Aquinas, then Erasmus, Thomas More, etc.. I know I do… I think there’s a lot to be said for a solid classical education (although, that may due to the fact that I have no education, so any education looks good).

]]> By: The Zombieslayer http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/03/09/creed-by-steve-turner/#comment-7005 The Zombieslayer Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:00:15 +0000 http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/03/09/creed-by-steve-turner/#comment-7005 Some scary stuff there. I didn't realize how much I disagreed with the humanist until I read this. Some scary stuff there. I didn’t realize how much I disagreed with the humanist until I read this.

]]> By: Mike http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/03/09/creed-by-steve-turner/#comment-7004 Mike Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:01:34 +0000 http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/03/09/creed-by-steve-turner/#comment-7004 Hey Bo ... now this is something a WISE sociologist might write if there were any. It's written so perceptively a student can say, "Oh, now I get it!" It's awesome writing and I enjoyed it more than the poem... "Often, we deny verities and creeds so vehemently that our persistent dissention becomes dogma which, ironically, congeals into a creed of our own — a positive confession of our contrarian attitude, systematizing the tenets of our rebellion against any form of alien correction or restraint that might hinder us in our pursuit of pleasure and self-interest. In the end, we may become the bigoted haters that so excited our righteous passions in the first place." Hey Bo … now this is something a WISE sociologist might write if there were any. It’s written so perceptively a student can say, “Oh, now I get it!” It’s awesome writing and I enjoyed it more than the poem…

“Often, we deny verities and creeds so vehemently that our persistent dissention becomes dogma which, ironically, congeals into a creed of our own — a positive confession of our contrarian attitude, systematizing the tenets of our rebellion against any form of alien correction or restraint that might hinder us in our pursuit of pleasure and self-interest. In the end, we may become the bigoted haters that so excited our righteous passions in the first place.”

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