Welcome to the "Critics and Cynics" Blog, a place where you can freely discuss your thoughts on issues of faith, life, and culture. This is a landing zone for a book club that goes by the same name, but we encourage the greater community at-large to join in the conversation.
Why "critics and cynics"?
Basically, we feel that anything worth believing in requires a healthy level of either criticism of cynicism.
Criticism is defined as "the art of evaluating or analyzing", whereas cynicism is marked by a "general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others." We believe both are important and necessary when exploring issues of faith and culture.
What's the point?
Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." We want to have a life worth living, even if it means examining some of the ideas and presuppositions to which we've tightly clung for so long. We are dubious of institutions that have trained us to play "follow the leader," and in order to go deeper, we must be healthy skeptics.
Paul of Tarsus said, "Test everything. Hold onto the good." This is the intended end of this little experiment. As we analyze and question, we are hoping that we are able to discard the unnecessary and hold onto whatever is left that is good, true, and noble.
Hopefully, it will be much more substantial than whatever we started with.
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Darn.
One more site to check on the internet. One more reason to postpone washing out my dog's ears or "monetizing" (like that word?) my work day. One more substitute for actually meeting someone face to face for coffee or penning a real letter on real paper with real ink.
Hey Vince, maybe you need to hush up and get with the program.
Drag yourself kicking and screaming out of the 90's (or even better yet, out of the more comfortable '70's).
My friend Jeff says that blogs are how people communicate these days. It must be true. After all, he has cool glasses and plays a vintage Gibson SG.
Ahhh...is that my carefully concealed cynicism or my artful criticism rearing its graying head? Or perhaps neither? Or both?
In any case, my friend Jeff and I are recovering cynics trying to turn our powers from the Dark Side into something potentially illuminating and engaging. And we invite you to join our journey into healthy skepticism and honest criticism.
Each month, we will suggest a book as the starting point for our conversation. Feel free to join us online as we challenge "pat answers" and "the party line. We need your voice, mind, and heart to make this process legit.
We'll also plan a monthly rendezvous to meet, eat, and discuss our book of choice. That's all for now.
(It should be interesting to see how long I actually keep this up.)
I'm having a hard time keeping up with all the blogs you are writing for!!!! Ha!! I think I like the idea behind this one...I feel my life becomes something better when I'm challenged on what I believe and how I think about certain things. Looking forward to what you guys will have to say.....
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