(May 6, 2019 at 2:00 pm)tackattack Wrote: A. No. The words were "I traveled on speaking teams, preached to thousands of teenagers at a time, wrote blogs, was published, formed curriculum, taught workshops, was an up-and-comer reforming my denomination. The whole time hoping at some point it would click, and become true for me. He did admit to having doubts and questions, which is absolutely fine. He also admitted it wasn't true for him and that he later ascribed "faking it to make it".
B. Doubt and not knowing if something is true, are absolutely fine. Only in the anti-theists view that all Christians are illogical or unreasonable is questioning your belief not allowed. I was always allowed to ask questions and prompted to, and I didn't always find the answers, or the answers I wanted.Christians can harbor doubts and questions, that's rarely what causes people to leave the church, IMO. Most I've spoken with cite particular attitudes, people, dogma or a trauma as their reason. Bold for emphasis again, I'm not stating all Christians who have doubts are fake, just that this guy was by his own admission.
So anyone who plows ahead with trying to be a Christian despite having serious doubts is a fake Christian. I'm agreeing with you. How many actual Christians do you suppose that leaves? Since I view Christianity (and revealed religion in general) as an overall minus for society, I am happy to support that all the 'fake it till you make it' Christians are fakes who aren't even really Christians. How do we get the ministers on board? And can I quote you when someone confesses to me that they're not sure they believe but they're trying?
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
