True or False:

I was getting a little frustrated by the whole poetry woohoo thing, so I decided to skip this blog until I began to read our second reading for the week (not poetry :)

"Schle" and that is what I shall call him.

**Don't worry Dr. Mitchell I am a-strugglin' with the text, but for my blog I wanted to just write some stuff, not struggle quite as much**

So I was reminded of Aquinas as I read "Schle", very orderly and organized with lots of complex ideas....maybe I was alone.

Real Beginning:

I really liked his (I think it was Schle, it was in the Schle packet) "On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers" mainly because I thought it was funny...which I like readings I find entertaining (who would have guessed?). Anyway, as he is making this defense he is as title suggests speaking to a crowd who thinks they have no need for God. (I have NEVER known anyone like that) They don't believe they need God mainly because they are slightly (*sarcasm*) self absorbed. "Having made a universe for yourselves, you are above the need of thinking of the Universe that made you".

(Man OH Man, this Schle-guy gets it DONE. He is so insulting...I can just imagine whoever is listening to him...)

So what I am really going to write about is the second paragraph in the reading he says, "Might I ask one question?" (I found this particularly ironic because he is asking a question) And after this question he unloads this huge question...

"On every subject, however small and unimportant, you would most willingly be taught by those who have devoted to it their lives and their powers. In your desire for knowledge you do not avoid the cottages of the peasant or the workshops of the humble artizans. How then does it come about that, in matters of religion alone, you hold everything the more dubious when it comes from those who are experts, not only according to their own profession, but by recognition from the state, and from the people? Or can you perhaps, strangely enough, show that they are not more experienced, but maintain and cry up anything rather than religion?"

So he points out the flaw in their reasoning which is their bias. People's bias leads them to say some pretty stupid stuff about things they really don't understand. Its some kind of tendency. For example, some might think all homeless people are lazy bums. Without even having spent any real time with them making a generalization about a whole. I feel sometimes people do that with Christians and shut out the whole message. They may have even met a couple Christians and realized these guys are hypocrites. Which leads to the statement "All Christians are hypocrites"...Great! Right? Schle-man confronts this bias and requests his audience to listen and reconsider their thoughts about the Divine.

Thats why teachers always tell you with true/false statements that questions with "always" or "never" are never true.

(Think about that one :)