(December 24, 2015 at 8:08 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(December 24, 2015 at 7:37 pm)Delicate Wrote: But nevermind all that. The real salient point here is that your interest was primarily in socializing, and the question of the truth claims about reality which Christians (yes, even fundamentalists) purport to express hardly arises. So you weren't ever a fundamentalist.
That's not a fair assessment of who I was. I really tried to believe in Christian Biblical literalism; the religion itself did provide me with emotional and mental comforts, but yes, the social aspect was equally compelling. As I said, I used to read Josh McDowell (the "Evidence which demands a Verdict" series), and later on, Gary Habermas. I had a New International Version Charles Ryrie study bible and would memorize whole chapters of the Bible for Bible camp. I should mention that I was raised in Christian fundamentalism, but even as I began to drift away from it in high school and college, it was still very much an emotional and social experience for me, and it was, for a long time, hard to let go out it. It was almost like I was addicted to a drug, and I went through periods of withdrawal as I was coming off of it; a lot of mental anguish. Now, if I had married a Christian fundamentalist, I admit that I might still be with it, if only to please a potential wife, and in the process, save a potential marriage.
Trying to be x doesn't make you x though, right?
