Bing and DuckDuckGo search on: multi-faith belief in God that is compatible with science, has my posts in top results
Last updated on 18th October 2020
Yesterday I saw part of a recent video interview of Tim Sledge, a USA ex-pastor who now is an atheist and does not believe in Jesus Christ or God, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSp1yOrSFK0. Here is his book link: Goodbye Jesus: An Evangelical Preacher's Journey Beyond Faith, https://www.amazon.in/Goodbye-Jesus-Evangelical-Preachers-Journey-ebook/dp/B07L7H66LP/ .
I felt sad that this person's disappointments with the Christian church system that he was associated with as a preacher, and with the other church systems (churches) that he explored to "restore" his faith, led him to lose faith in God and in the divinity of Lord Jesus Christ.
In the interview, he talked about his eventual rejection of the belief that those who do not believe in Jesus Christ will go to Hell, among other such beliefs, which he seems to have not only believed in earlier, but may also have preached. He talked about some members of his congregation not being so interested in helping out broken people and those who are in need, with these members asking him to withdraw from the church leadership position, which seems to have disturbed him.
I can understand and empathize with him on these matters. The logical thing for him was to quit being a priest/pastor in that church, which he did. But he eventually lost faith in divinity of Lord Jesus Christ itself! I felt sad about that. Perhaps the issue was some dogma of the church that he was associated with as a preacher, getting mixed up with divinity of Lord Jesus Christ. And so when he eventually rejected the dogma, he lost faith in Jesus Christ too, and also in God in general!
I then thought about my post on statements on belief in God that is compatible with science, from a multi-faith perspective, where there is minimum church-type dogma. Note that my post adapts BioLogos' statements of belief in God to a multi-faith perspective. I wondered about its Internet search engine ranking for related search terms. That led me to do some searches and capture screenshots of that, which are given below in this post.
Note that in Jan. this year I had done similar searches but without the word multi-faith in it. To read up on that please visit my post: Interesting to note that Bing and DuckDuckGo search on: statements of belief in god that is compatible with science, has my Facebook note in top results, https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2020/01/interesting-to-note-that-bing-and.html, 15th Jan. 2020
For searches I did today, the key search term/phrase used is:
multi-faith belief in God that is compatible with science
Bing gives a related post of mine: Crisp Statements of Belief in God that is Compatible with Science, https://iami1.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/crisp-statements-of-belief-in-god-that-is-compatible-with-science/ , as the 3rd result, as shown in below pic.
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Bing search url: https://www.bing.com/search?q=multi-faith+belief+in+God+that+is+compatible+with+science&search=&form=QBLH
DuckDuckGo gives a related post of mine: About top-notch scientist Dr. Francis Collins and his superb arguments about science being compatible with belief in (Christian) God; My adaptation to multi-faith God, https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2018/01/about-top-notch-scientist-dr-francis.html , as the 2nd result, as shown in below pic. This post links to above result post - Crisp Statements of Belief in God that is Compatible with Science, https://iami1.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/crisp-statements-of-belief-in-god-that-is-compatible-with-science/ .
DuckDuckGo search url: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=multi-faith+belief+in+God+that+is+compatible+with+science&t=h_&ia=web
Google Search for this term does not show my posts in the first 40 results that I checked.
Modifying the search term to: statements of belief in multi-faith God that is compatible with science
gives my related post: Crisp Statements of Belief in God that is Compatible with Science, https://iami1.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/crisp-statements-of-belief-in-god-that-is-compatible-with-science/ , as a 4th page result (31st ranked result). See pic below.
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Given below are my comments from my Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2966033646946526 , associated with this blog post:
In response to a comment, I wrote (slightly edited):
Thanks for your view --name-snipped-- sir. But this gentleman lost faith in God itself and became an atheist. I felt bad about that. Did you not feel bad that he lost faith in God?
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In response to a comment, I wrote:
And that belief in God is a source of great support, strength and joy! One would not want even one's enemy to lose such belief in God, as that loss is such a great loss!
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