tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349852820814335020.post3832801722216110729..comments2023-06-15T09:56:41.124-07:00Comments on Ramblings of a country pastor: Attitude towards EvilFr Bill Peckmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13645306356294218503noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349852820814335020.post-4979880915566797432013-08-30T09:25:06.886-07:002013-08-30T09:25:06.886-07:00Why do you care? I was speaking in generalities t...Why do you care? I was speaking in generalities to start. If you took it as a personal attack, I apologize. It was not meant to be. That said, I did not see it as an attack on me as much as questioning my dad's beliefs. Timing is everything. My dad had just died and whether you agree with or not, he was deeply religious. I am not saying he was perfect. Had you made this a private note between you and Ann, I would be okay with that. However, you made it a public thing that you had to know would be read by the rest of his children, two of whom share their father's faith. Now, I wish you to put yourself in my shoes. Your dad just dies...you read a post to a sibling that dismisses his deeply held convictions...mind you..you haven't had his funeral yet. I know my dad. you didn't. I know his temperament, his beliefs, and spent many long hours listening to him. Did you. I think I might know better what he would and would not have been offended by. <br /><br />This is my last word. I'll not be arguing with someone who is playing a zero sum game. I respect your wish to be an atheist or agnostic even if I thoroughly disagree with it. You were the one who put this in the public domain, not I. In putting in the public domain it was no longer directed merely at my sister. It was directed at anyone who would read it. I read it and was hurt that my dad's beliefs were dismissed to his daughter on the occasion of his death. It might not have been your purpose nor intent, but it is what was accomplished. Had this been for her eyes only, this post would not exist nor would this conversation. <br /><br />Again, intents are one thing, results another. I will just remind you that it is my dad we are talking about and as his son who believes what he did (to some degree) I have a right to my beliefs as well. Fr Bill Peckmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13645306356294218503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349852820814335020.post-81117360865631196882013-08-30T07:29:59.744-07:002013-08-30T07:29:59.744-07:00As I've made very clear, I am deeply saddened ...As I've made very clear, I am deeply saddened by the death of your father.<br /><br />His death does not, however, give you the right to post things that are blatantly untrue about a complete stranger and then delete their response. So please don't insinuate that I was somehow out of line by clearing up lies you told during a time of grief in your life. You are not beyond criticism.<br /><br />This paragraph in particular was unbelievably offensive:<br /><br />I know she meant well in helping her friend deal with the loss of her dad, but I was struck by the hopelessness of those words and how they wanted to drag my sister into that same hopelessness, a hopelessness that my dad would have categorically disagreed with intensely and would have taken great offense that someone was using this opportunity to directly dismiss his own deep held faith with one of his children.<br /><br />As far as the word “hopelessness” you continued to throw around, I posted my original status update under your blog. Please reread it. If you continue to detect hopelessness, your interpretation is the result of something your brain is doing, not the words written. Secondly, your fallacious claim that I want to drag your sister into a world of hopelessness was repugnant. As if that wasn't offensive enough, you continue on, suggesting that your father would have been greatly offended by my words. Finally, you assert that I was using his death as an opportunity to dismiss his faith with one of his children?<br /><br />How dare you?<br /><br />Beyond the many revolting things you said about me, did you ever think it would upset your sister if you posted something terrible about her friend mere days after her father's death? At least I had the decency to check with her before responding. <br /><br />I will respond to your other statements later this evening. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216221539371487546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349852820814335020.post-46711615254134696542013-08-29T18:57:51.388-07:002013-08-29T18:57:51.388-07:00To both of you. Jenny, I can least understand you...To both of you. Jenny, I can least understand your anger. My public post was a response to your public post. Siobhan, I do not go onto atheist websites cruising for indignation. Nor do I bother anymore to anti-Catholic, anti-Christian, anti-religion, anti-cleric post or comments anymore as my fingers would be worn to nubs. You have a right to your beliefs, as much as I might disagree with them. I also have a right to mine, as much as you might disagree with them. For heaven's sake, you came onto a priest's website. Fr Bill Peckmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13645306356294218503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349852820814335020.post-40538198949565826212013-08-29T18:34:14.728-07:002013-08-29T18:34:14.728-07:00It might have had something to do with my dad just...It might have had something to do with my dad just dying.Fr Bill Peckmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13645306356294218503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349852820814335020.post-91276038517766547152013-08-29T17:34:39.866-07:002013-08-29T17:34:39.866-07:00Interesting to know that I am not the only person ...Interesting to know that I am not the only person who had comments removed. He actually deleted comments I posted in defense of my character after he, unprovoked, posted a blog written ABOUT me.<br /><br />That is correct. A blog was written about me by a person I have never spoken to before, and I was never given the opportunity to defend myself. You really do have to wonder whose morals are actually in question.<br /><br />I also have a blog and will be copying this to my own as well, since that seems to be the only way to prevent responses from being deleted.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216221539371487546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349852820814335020.post-73674631619814430742013-08-29T17:20:04.047-07:002013-08-29T17:20:04.047-07:00For what reason did you delete the comments I made...For what reason did you delete the comments I made under the blog you posted in my honor?<br /><br />http://ramblingsofacountrypastor.blogspot.com/2012/12/death-and-faithor-lack-thereof.html?m=1Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216221539371487546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349852820814335020.post-40366397201295013262013-08-29T17:14:00.210-07:002013-08-29T17:14:00.210-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216221539371487546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349852820814335020.post-20896678496215240882013-08-29T11:27:11.796-07:002013-08-29T11:27:11.796-07:00Enjoying the irony That I cannot comment on your w...Enjoying the irony That I cannot comment on your website. That and why do you care what I wrote? I didn't force my opinion upon you. I did not make you come to my blog. You chose that. You wildly misread what I wrote as I did not come down on one side or the other about if this were a actual priest or a angel. Either way, regardless of your disbelief, there was divine intervention. You want to call it 'superstition'? Okay. Fr Bill Peckmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13645306356294218503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349852820814335020.post-7287782029344760502013-08-29T10:57:44.460-07:002013-08-29T10:57:44.460-07:00actually, the last time I deleted, I was going on ...actually, the last time I deleted, I was going on vacation and had no time to monitor comments. Since you have such a disgust with me, I knew it would require time to respond that I didn't have. Now that I am back, I read your comments and see that response would be futile as you have already developed an opinion about me that I doubt any amount of argumentation will dispel. There is evil. Abortion is evil. I do make a distinction between the action and the person. You have your opinion and I have mine. We will see which is correct in the long run. I base mine in human history. We have been at this juncture before. It didn't end well then either. Fr Bill Peckmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13645306356294218503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349852820814335020.post-51644507301826573592013-08-13T07:34:28.025-07:002013-08-13T07:34:28.025-07:00So the critical thinkers who you scorn as souless,...So the critical thinkers who you scorn as souless, evil people, were right about the "angel" priest. http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/mystery-priest-in-missouri-rescue-revealed/Siobhan Turteltaubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04585836131079403029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349852820814335020.post-82133091374363751572013-08-10T07:04:07.610-07:002013-08-10T07:04:07.610-07:00Should read: Since you seem to run from the light...Should read: Since you seem to run from the light of truth and reason and delete comments that DISagree with your narrow, dark world view,Siobhan Turteltaubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04585836131079403029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349852820814335020.post-31112588910475384092013-08-10T06:26:28.932-07:002013-08-10T06:26:28.932-07:00It's sad to see how much darkness and hatred y...It's sad to see how much darkness and hatred you harbor in your heart. And then make statements about being tolerant like this: <br /><br />"Our attitude is to be of mercy to all. Sometimes we can act as if condemnation of peoples somehow will make things better. It doesn’t. Do we condemn actions? Absolutely! Do we condemn people? Absolutely not! That belongs to God alone."<br /><br />But you do condemn people and wrongly too. Here's an example of the hatred and acrimony your distorted world view has burdened you with. These are your own words. Your own false assertions:<br /><br />"The non-believer, however, has no choice but to scoff, mock, and dismiss. As their only hope is in this world and the short lifetime we are given here, the sense of hopelessness only sets in deeper as they see the same things we do. They either ignore it through total self-consumption or rage against religion because it doesn't protect them from the free choice of others nor does it give them all they want, in the quantity they want, and it isolates them from any divine compassion. They need there to be no miracles and no divine power. If such things do exists, they know that all of their reality is built on sand and that they are blowing the one chance they have at happiness. This is why so many are so angry. Life with no God is an angry and desolate place; an exercise in futility that no amount of money, power, honor, or pleasure can satiate. It is something I want no part of. Furthermore, it is not reality."<br /><br />You're attacking the many good, decent, HONEST, and caring people who are critical thinkers and use truth, evidence and reason to sort fact from fiction rather than blind obedience, superstition and a selfish desire to avoid punishment and receive some grand reward. Those people don't hate and scorn others with a different world view as you yourself do. They coexist peacefully with all religious people, while simply choosing not to pretend that the supernatural world cobbled together by ancient, primitive men is real. <br /><br />By the way, if you're going to use the internet to blog, you should also have the courage to leave replies to your blogs up. Since you seem to run from the light of truth and reason and delete comments that agree with your narrow, dark world view, I'll be sure to copy your blogs and then add my responses and post them on my own blog. That will at least give others a chance to grow as enlightened, decent human beings.Siobhan Turteltaubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04585836131079403029noreply@blogger.com