(December 24, 2015 at 10:23 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(December 24, 2015 at 9:59 pm)Delicate Wrote: Trying to be x doesn't make you x though, right?
Well, I was raised as a Christian fundamentalist evangelical; attended a Biblical literalist church from before age 5 until I quit attending around my junior year in high school. By then, the doubts were almost insurmountable. Was drawn back into it during my college years, only to abandon it later on. While in college, it was like an old drug habit; I had been "clean" for a few years, but loneliness and depression drew me back into it. Christian fundamentalism is comforting and there are many social supports (including, meeting members of the opposite sex), which, from my experience, is magnetic for a lot of people. It certainly was for me, but in the end, bullshit is still bullshit.
You're still blurring the distinction between loneliness-driven participation in social fundamentalism and actual fundamentalist beliefs.
The former is not real fundamentalism. So far as the latter, or makes no sense in rejecting fundamentalism to reject all of religion.
That's like one bad theory leading you to reject ask of science
