It seems that this "blog" is an in-grown false start, a pathetic symposium of one... a truly mimetic culture of death. And I detest it! So, in the name of sharp iron, Let there be fight! Mr. Matt Anderson I challenge you in Blog's name, defend the existence of this new City in Words! Lest I make my pity heard in a few pretty words*: It seems that no one should create a blog such as Mere Orthodoxy. For, it is better to give than to recieve, and asking someone to listen to you is a reception of attention. So the receiving of attention requires justification, yet has none, so no one should create a blog such as Mere Orthodoxy. Also, as Dante said, "All men whose higher nature has endowed them with a love of truth obviously have the greatest interest in working for posterity, so that in return for the patrimony provided for them by their predecessors' labors they may make rovision for the patrimony of future generations. Certainly a man who has recieved public instruction would be far from performing his duty if he showed no concern for the public weal, for he would not be a "tree by the streams of water, bearing fruit in due season," but rather an erosive whirpool always sucking in and never returning what it devours... For what fruit is there in proving once more a theorem in Euclid, or in trying to show man his true happiness, which Aristotle has already shown, or in defending old age as Cicero did? Fruitless and positively tiresome are such superfluous "works." ' The critiques implicit in the above are threefold: 1. What good is this blog to patrimony? 2. What fruit are you bloggers returning? And 3., to what other, more important activities might you apply yourselves in stead of participating in this blog (such as the writing of a totally original dissertation)? If the answers to each of these three is "None" "None" and "Yes" in that order, then no one should create a blog such as Mere Orthodoxy. Also, as to the consumers of this blog, readers are unlikely to discover herein new opinions or arguments not available in more beautiful and structurally sound writings elsewhere, such as the writings of Plantiga, Reynolds, Geier, Moreland, Craig, and for that matter, Chambers. If those reading seek new opinions and arguments, then there is no reason for them to read Mere Orthodoxy. And if there are no readers, there is no reason to creat a blog such as Mere Orthodoxy. On the other hand, the logo is nice... But regardless! If you have no answer for each of these points in turn, then *I am a sorry for you and your inane, inactive, hopeless blog. Your friend, Circular