On 7/24/07, Michael Roberts <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I totally agree with George here. Brief and to the point. Perhaps
> Gregory's test is the noise people make rather than what they say.
>
> Both ID and YEC make me ashamed to be a Christian.
>
Don't you think "embarrassed" would be a more appropriate word than
"ashamed"? Yes, it was surely embarrassing, when I found my atheist
colleagues had stumbled upon the Kangaroo article in "Conservapedia" and
laughing heartily at the statement that the kangaroo's legs were "designed
by God for leaping". But that very incident led me to a position where I
could talk about my faith with one of them - by saying that it was all
highly embarrassing that fundamentalists come out with this kind of talk,
but not everyone took it that literally.
If I'd been "ashamed", I guess I'd have just curled up in a corner and not
said anything. Isn't the nature of the Gospel that our shame has been taken
away by Christ's sacrifice?
Iain
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