Monday, August 2, 2010

What's So Great about Christianity 基督精神的伟大



“Only truth shall set you free." --- Christ

“只有真实才能使你得到自由。” --- 基督铭言

陈凯一语:

当我参与哈岗学委会关于“孔学堂”辩论的时候,我发现陈介飞在利用学童作政治工具的时候已将他们洗脑了: 这些(亚裔华裔)学童们只跟随掌权者、肤色种族、贫富阶级、祖宗文化、名人书本、时髦潮流、、。 他们完全没有自己的语言,更不知自身的良知、理性与信仰。 他们的上帝是如奥巴马一样的权贵们和他们从不知晓的祖先文化。 权力、输赢、敌友、内外、救脸护皮、幻觉“人间天堂”是他们语言中的常用词与实质迷恋。 由此可知,共产专制的腐灵暴政在华语文化中的蔓延滋长是不奇怪的。

Kai Chen's Words:

When I took part in the debate in Hacienda School District over the issue of "Confucius Classroom", I had found that Jay Chen with his cohorts have effectively brainwashed the school kids, using them as his political tool for their unspeakable leftist/radical agenda to "fundamentally transform America".

These school kids, most them if not all having Asian (Chinese) background, fear/worship authority rather than God. They follow the powerful rather than their own conscience. They shout slogans/labels rather than reasoning with facts and logic. They talk others' language rather than their own. They are obsessed with race, skin color, social class, rich or poor, ancestry, culture, chic, popularity, fame and the established, etc... Majority, winning or losing, enemy or friend, them or us, face and vanity, illusions of "heaven on earth" are all they seem to care about. Their eyes are empty with no intelligence, no values, no spirit, no soul. There is only some nameless anger and resentment. You just have to wonder why the evil of communism/socialism is so easily/eagerly spread, tolerated, accepted and internalized by such a population of Chinese culture and ancestry.


陈凯博客: www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com

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Book Link 购书链锁: http://www.amazon.com/Whats-So-Great-about-Christianity/dp/1414326017/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253087696&sr=1-2

What's So Great about Christianity

基督精神的伟大


Book Review: A passionate presentation of the strengths and historical truths about Christianity

December 2, 2008
By Craig Matteson (Ann Arbor, MI)

This review is from: What's So Great about Christianity (Paperback)

I found this book to be wonderfully refreshing. We live in a time when books promoting atheism and attacking religion (especially Christianity) are best sellers and promoted nearly everywhere. This book stands up for Christianity, but in an intellectual and systematic way. D'Souza has not provided a book of testimony or a scriptural defense of faith. He spends twenty-four chapters examining the arguments made against religion and answers them using history, philosophy, and careful reasoning. Chapters 25 & 26 are the closest the author comes to promoting Christianity and inviting you to examine its benefits. However, it is hardly an aggressive missionary approach.

D'Souza presents the basic material examining Christianity in seven parts (the eight being the last two chapters). The first is "The Future of Christianity". The author lays out the current bump in popularity in militant atheism, but why it is really a long term loser. Despite atheism's best efforts, outside narrow intellectual circles religion is growing in most places in the world. In particular, Christianity is growing the fastest of all and in its future is bright. The second part looks at the historical rise and contributions of Christianity to Western Civilization and again demonstrates that many popular notions are simply wrong or fabrications.

The third part looks at science as a wonderful tool and a very poor faith. I particularly loved the chapter correcting the popular notion that Galileo was imprisoned by the Church because the Church was trying to suppress scientific truth. In fact, he was put under house arrest because he published a book he had promised not to publish and insulted the pope in a very egregious way. However, Galileo's scientific truths were being examined by the leading intellects of the day, who were in the Church, and while much was accepted, it did turn out that Galileo was wrong about some details.

The fourth part examines the various arguments against the Church because of evolution and natural selection. D'Souza shows the evidence for creation, that evolution per se says nothing against religion or faith, and how what is understood in the natural record comfortably corresponds to religious teaching over the millennia. Yes, all human knowledge has expanded, but the core religious truths have not been overthrown.

Part five is an interesting examination of the limits of the reason that the atheists say overthrows faith. D'Souza makes an interesting use of Kant to demonstrate a problem in Hume's thought. We also get treated to an interesting discussion of why miracles are reasonable and the skeptic's wager. That is, if there really is nothing, one hasn't lost much by believing in God and yet if there is a God not believing in him presents a great cost.

Part six looks at the notion of suffering as an argument against God and Christianity. The author corrects the notion that religion is responsible for the great mass murders in history and exposes the lame attempts by atheists to try and keep their skirts clean by pushing Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, and Mao in the camp of believers.

Part seven spends several chapters examining the problem of morality for atheists, despite their great efforts to construct their own morality, the notion of spirit, why so many find unbelief (even a passive unbelief) so appealing, and the problem that evil in the world presents to those who believe in God. I think D'Souza does a good job with each topic.


I recommend this book to any Christian of any sect to get great information about the history, power, and strength of your history and faith. No, it is not a replacement for your communion with the Spirit or the nourishment of your faith in the scriptures. However, it will help you deal with the nagging frustrations you feel when you see Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, and others on TV or read their words in articles and books. While they are very confident in their faith (and that is exactly what atheism is at its core), most of what they are presenting is testimony rather than fact and sound reasoning.

If you are in doubt about choosing between a search for faith or giving up and accepting materialism, I also urge you to read this book, but to also seek to join yourself with a community of believers who can help you on your journey. My faith is strengthened by worshiping and living in faith with others and you probably will, too.

If you are an atheist, I also think you should read this book. No, I don't expect that it will open a mind already committed to an opposite point of view, but it will give you a good look at the strength of argument on the other side. If you simply dismiss them out of hand or disdainfully push them away, you haven't won anything because you haven't actually participated in an exchange of ideas. Sure, you have every right to do so, but I don't find such pride and contempt of others to be very becoming.

Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

隐藏在所谓”中国传统文化“的背后

陆士绅

那些极力维护所谓”中国文化“的人们,其行为模式与逻辑就像母系社会里面的女主人。

那种女人最常见的控制自己儿子与男人的方法就是夸:‘YOU ARE THE BEST!, YOU ARE HOLY!,儿子最好,最乖,儿子好听话,儿子好聪明,老公好能干,。。。。“

他(=她)们谈到中国文明的时候就是一句话:中国文明(或者叫中国文化?他们搞不清楚,其实对他们而言也不需要清楚明白;象形文字的右半脑思考反正不用定义和逻辑)就是好,就是好,就是好。。。。 这种逻辑同文化大革命的共产党独裁者的唱歌一样”无产阶级文化大革命就是好呀,就是好,就是好。。。。。“

女人(女主人性心态者)由于其本身生理和心理的天然差异,在逻辑思维和体能活动方面无法同男人一样,在这些层面面对男性处于明显弱势。

他们这种女人”就是好“的情感思维与表达背后的动机,就是要让她们的儿子和 男人们处于同他们一样的心智水准,避免逻辑思维,扼杀认知真理和探索新世界的男性冲动。蒙蔽男人们的眼睛,让男人们都趟在她们通过她们自身肉体标榜的各种各样名目的人间天堂,以及人间天堂的美梦,来防止男人们心智成熟打开心灵的眼睛,发挥左半脑逻辑思维能力,来认识世界的真实。

判断这种社会的标准其实很简单:那些老女人闪现一颗男人一样的眼睛,男人显露着孩子一样的眼神,而孩子却张着成年人一样的眼睛。 这样的眼神,在穆斯林国家很容易看到,也在前苏联和那些共产独裁国家常见。 然而,我们中国人的眼神确是个例外。

因为,唯有这样她们才会有安全感和保持主人地位。

现在,他们只不过将这种心态下的价值和行为模式赋予到所谓”中国传统文化“上面,就像当年那些共产革命的人们,将这种心态赋予到”共产主义“这个名词下一样。在这种心态之下,他们是以回归复古的名义反共,却同当年及现在那些共产独裁者们以共产革命的名义专制确遵循了同样的逻辑和价值,其背后价值与行为模式的根源都离不开这个”老旧女人“。

没有共产党,没有新中国,没有中国传统文化,有的只是这个老旧女人后面的那个独裁邪灵。

可笑的是,一些人不知道耶稣基督,或者是背离了信仰,却宣称信基督就是崇拜偶像,基督信仰(对不起,他们用了基督教这个词)是独裁专制的根源。

这里需要提到的被他们所推崇的仲维光先生,虽然据说仲先生倡导”描述性的,分析性的讨论“。却在其《关于极权主义问题探究》中说”如果把宗教广义地解释为人对人以外的存在物的探索和信仰,西方宗教是一神论,是偶像崇拜,而中国的、东方的、佛教、道教等则不是如此。“

就个人理解西方宗教:基督教,东正教,天主教,也许还有个包含islamic 和犹太教。 究竟是那一个教还是全部“西方宗教”都拜偶像?东方宗教本人没有研究,但是认佛教是拜偶像的。

像钟文这种背离事实,真实,真相和实证的描述性,分析性研究结论,只可能在我们中国文字之类的象形文字文明里面被人接受。 只有在这这种文明,这种基于右脑处理能力的文化氛围里面的人们,不需要真理,不需要真实,不需要实证,不需要逻辑推理及理性认知能力。

经上说,“那人独居不好”,就为他造了女人可以陪伴他。

看在在共同反共的大旗下,读这种女人式言论,就应该像对女人一样,作为陪伴而已。

危险就是,男人们要真去跟他们一起玩女人游戏。

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