RE: Leaving christianity, a bit of my story
July 16, 2016 at 4:48 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2016 at 4:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
In your mind, telling them about the christian god who made them and hears them and watches them isn't discussing your religion or doctrines. Factually, it is, but that's irrelevant in context.
Don't you think that's interesting...how much faith and people of faith have changed as a result of secularism and the increasing primacy placed upon reason and rationality? A few generations ago you told kids all about christ as soon as they could sit there and listen. You were a bad person for not doing so...today..you, as a believer, feel better about waiting until "the age of reason" ....even if you actually didn't do that. I suppose it tickles me because we hear about this new godless world and all it;'s perils so often, but as outsiders, we can easily identify those instances in which the faithful have seemlessly and effortlessly incorporated the very things they rail against into their own faithful lives.
Don't you think that's interesting...how much faith and people of faith have changed as a result of secularism and the increasing primacy placed upon reason and rationality? A few generations ago you told kids all about christ as soon as they could sit there and listen. You were a bad person for not doing so...today..you, as a believer, feel better about waiting until "the age of reason" ....even if you actually didn't do that. I suppose it tickles me because we hear about this new godless world and all it;'s perils so often, but as outsiders, we can easily identify those instances in which the faithful have seemlessly and effortlessly incorporated the very things they rail against into their own faithful lives.
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