I'm really excited to see what comes out of this.
soulpancake.
This is a video Rainn Wilson (AKA Dwight from da office) made to promote his new web-site, soul pancake. It's sounds like it's a place where anybody can go and put there ideas to answer some of "life's big questions". I visited the site, and sure enough there is plenty of responses to these questions. I think if this thing really gets up and running it'll be great. It'll forcing people to think about things they ignore. C.S. Lewis talks about how people will do anything to avoid these kind of questions. We all have a longing inside of us. And many of us don't know what to do about. And I think this website will (fashionably) answer some people's longing.
Also, I think there is a big warning with this also. I always get a little bit scared when God starts to become "cool." There is a huge danger in people being fake and doing it just because their friends are. I grew up in a church where this was very evident. Most of my friends from youth group are completely different people now than they were then. Why? because it wasn't real. Maybe it was for some people. But for me, it wasn't. But yeah back to the point; I'l be curious to see what happens.
There is a video of Rainn talking about this web-site to Oprah. And Rainn really seems to be against organized religion. We all know that most people today don't like organized religion but he seems to believe that there is truth to all religions. Which I find very interesting, because they seem contradict each other. . . But I don't know much about other religions. . . So I won't say much. I just hope this doesn't mean more hate towards christians for being small minded. (well, what do I expect? Jesus did promise we would be hated) And lastly I will say this: I am very excited to see this play out, people thinking about God is great. If we all started loving God on a daily basis, oh! how the world would change. . .
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This kind of stuff always gets me thinking too. Particularly the whole wave of people against organized religion. But I am a strong believer in the idea that if you don't ask these hard questions, you don't give yourself a strong foundation for faith. I think JP II said something along the lines of that you will always have a stronger faith if you face your doubts and overcome them and find answers than if you just ignore them. If you ever want to talk about "big-picture" stuff le me know :)
-Bernard
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