Wow I'm a fan of John Spong now. In one of his videos he is asked how to have a conversation with the fundamentalist sort of crowd. His reply it's not possible to have a "conversation" with people that are sure they are right and you are wrong, but didn't have much more of an answer then that. Coming from someone that use to be a fundamental literal sort of person this is even more profound because even though he got out of that way of thinking, he is basically saying here that it's not something that can be helped from the outside. If I got it right.
Burke Lecture: John Shelby Spong
(it's 2 hours long)
Well I won't accept that I can't reach people. So I'm thinking that the best way to approach those non-logical Christian type thinkers is to:
Provide them with the tools they need to get out of that.
Show them it's not that scary on the outside.
Appeal to whatever keeps them closed off to the rest of the world.
So what does keep people closed off from accept new ideas? If I've ever committed a similar mistake I'm still clueless to doing it to this day. I have a hard time picturing not accepting new ideas and not questioning my old ways of thinking because I always remember recognizing the basic truth that it's not smart to let your ideas stagnate. So can anyone help me understand how this works?
Also what would a good way to string all 3 of these ideas together?
Burke Lecture: John Shelby Spong
Well I won't accept that I can't reach people. So I'm thinking that the best way to approach those non-logical Christian type thinkers is to:
Provide them with the tools they need to get out of that.
Show them it's not that scary on the outside.
Appeal to whatever keeps them closed off to the rest of the world.
So what does keep people closed off from accept new ideas? If I've ever committed a similar mistake I'm still clueless to doing it to this day. I have a hard time picturing not accepting new ideas and not questioning my old ways of thinking because I always remember recognizing the basic truth that it's not smart to let your ideas stagnate. So can anyone help me understand how this works?
Also what would a good way to string all 3 of these ideas together?
