The Reason for Cleaning
April 4th 2008 08:29
Now here’s something odd: looking up air cleaners and God (one of those things I thought I’d do) I found a site where a discussion was going on about a book called The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, by Timothy Keller.
The book doesn’t seem to get much of a reception, if the various reviews of it are anything to go by. One reviewer says Keller falls into the trap of: Trying to address vast issues of good vs. evil, life vs. death, belief vs. doubt in just a few pages using the pre-digested Reader's Digest format.
Oh, dear.
Anyway, Mr Keller’s book aside, the curiosity about the site was that in a column down the right hand side was a heading: The last search phrases that lead [sic] visitors to our site. And were those phrases anything to do with God, or Jesus, or Christianity, or even apologetics? Nope. These are the top half dozen:
replacement filter for kenmore air cleaner
air cleaner home
engine air cleaner
air carpet cleaning duct
aircraft cleaners lavatory
air cleaning machine
vacume cleaner repair in gyser ny
And the list, which is some thirty or forty lines long, goes on in exactly the same vein. In fact, when I look at the location levels above the book review, I find that they go from Home to books about cleaners to Theism to The Reason for God. Quite a leap.
This is obviously a site that focuses on cleaners and cleaning. If you jump up a couple of
levels, you find that the books really are about those topics. Even when you do click on the Religion section the top title is Towards a Cleaner Planet: Energy for the Future (Environmental Science and Engineering / Environmental Science). It doesn’t sound like it has much to do with religion to me, but who am I to say?
Plainly, having snuck in the back door of this site I discovered something about it that only those in the know would normally be aware of. But Googling, I had no problem getting there.
The book doesn’t seem to get much of a reception, if the various reviews of it are anything to go by. One reviewer says Keller falls into the trap of: Trying to address vast issues of good vs. evil, life vs. death, belief vs. doubt in just a few pages using the pre-digested Reader's Digest format.
Oh, dear.
Anyway, Mr Keller’s book aside, the curiosity about the site was that in a column down the right hand side was a heading: The last search phrases that lead [sic] visitors to our site. And were those phrases anything to do with God, or Jesus, or Christianity, or even apologetics? Nope. These are the top half dozen:
replacement filter for kenmore air cleaner
air cleaner home
engine air cleaner
air carpet cleaning duct
aircraft cleaners lavatory
air cleaning machine
vacume cleaner repair in gyser ny
And the list, which is some thirty or forty lines long, goes on in exactly the same vein. In fact, when I look at the location levels above the book review, I find that they go from Home to books about cleaners to Theism to The Reason for God. Quite a leap.
This is obviously a site that focuses on cleaners and cleaning. If you jump up a couple of
Plainly, having snuck in the back door of this site I discovered something about it that only those in the know would normally be aware of. But Googling, I had no problem getting there.
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