$10,000 and growing fast
11.12.09 | Duncan | 
Email This Post
We have been overwhelmed with the incredible response from New Zealand, and have sailed past our original target of $10,000 in less than 48 hours. More importantly, we have started the discussion around the web, and hopefully at dining tables and in living rooms all over our beautiful country.
Of course we now doubled our target, so we need your help to continue spreading the message. Post on Facebook, tweet about it, get involved in the huge number of discussions going on around the web, and talk to your friends and family about it. Remember this campaign is about positivity, and we need to respect peoples alternative points of view, just as we hope they will respect ours. It is easy to get caught up in what can understandably be a very personal and emotional issue for some people.
Simon will be appearing on Close Up tonight, TV1 at 7pm to discuss the campaign. It should also be posted up on the TVNZ website later tonight.
Thanks to everyone who has sent us positive messages, and offered their support. We are trying really hard to answer all your questions, hopefully we will have more time over the weekend to do that!
March 29th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Cyberguy
O…K… so much for keeping it polite.
Coffee anyone?
Benji doesn’t piss me off. I am patient because it took me years of guilt-ridden questioning to reject what is a highly evolved brain parasite, replete with its own immune system for defending its hegemony.
Apologies for the lurid description but hey, how would you describe something that rules and limits your life while proclaiming to do the opposite?
I don’t give up so easily on people that could be me at an earlier stage.
I think we may have had this conversation before. Different strokes eh?
March 30th, 2010 at 1:05 am
Phil
I take your point.
But consider this. His questions have been asked and answered so often that it is an insult he has not made the effort to investigate them himself. Atheists are CONSTANTLY answering these same questions.
If christians had any integrity they would put the word out among themselves “Don’t use Pascal’s Wager – that one doesn’t work any more”.
Both my last two replies, on Pascals’ Wager and what evidence would convince me of god, I have answered so many times that I got tired of answering – so I saved a standard answer. My replies to Benji was simply cut-and-pasted from my saved version, with a tweak here or there.
It pisses me off when christians trot out 340 year-old arguments and think they are new.
March 30th, 2010 at 1:21 am
Phil
Also, I already answered his same question in my reply 107!
He has asked the same question twice and I have answered it twice.
I am entiled to get a bit short with the guy, if he does not read my actual answers.
Cyberguy
March 30th, 2010 at 9:26 am
Cyberguy,
I understand your exasperation. You have indeed answered all the questions before, and pretty well I thought. Rather than address your answers Benji is just repeating the questions like a broken record. That’s just lazy. And perhaps disingenuous.
This laziness is perhaps the biggest barrier to genuine debate. Many believers just don’t want to extend themselves beyond their comfort zone.
Their approach is the intellectual equivalent of sticking their fingers in their ears and chanting “Nyaaa, nyaaa…can’t hear you”.
Still, despite provocation, no need to abuse them, you are better than that. You are a formidable debater of the evidence, stick to that and I for one will follow your posts with support and enjoyment.
Cheers
Phil
March 30th, 2010 at 10:40 am
Thanks Phil – I accept your point.
Sorry, Benji.
March 31st, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Benji come back…
I’ll play nice.
March 31st, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Yeah, come back Benji. I’ll box his ears if he misbehaves. He can be such a naughty boy….