RE: Interview Assignment
November 14, 2019 at 3:44 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2019 at 3:52 pm by Athene.)
(November 14, 2019 at 12:21 am)Student Wrote: Hi, I am a Christian and I'm doing an assignment for one of my college classes. The assignment involves asking several different individuals a list of questions:
- 1. How would you describe your own religious background and church involvement?
- 2. How would you describe God?
- 3. What do you think is important in life?
- 4. What do you think it takes to be straightened out (or made right) with God?
- 5. How would you describe Jesus?
If you have any questions for me I would be happy to answer them to the best of my ability, just list them at the end of your response to these questions.
- 6. What are your thoughts about churches today?
I numbered each of your bullet-points for ease of reference and to save time and space quoting you.
1. Former Christian, current "None" raised by a somewhat devout Christian mother, and an atheist father. I attended Pentecostal church in my youth and briefly switched to Episcopalian during early adulthood before finally forgoing church altogether. My faith/god belief gradually declined over the years until one day it was no more, though I continued to have a deep respect and profound appreciation for certain aspects of Traditional African Spirituality and related Diasporic religions; Haitian Voodoo in particular, which I first began studying in my early teens. Though, I don't hold any god or supernatural beliefs, I would say that it informs my spiritual philosophy more than anything else.
2. A place holder, more or less.
3. Learning, knowledge of self, freedom, empowerment, the pursuits of justice and happiness, and making a genuine effort to live in accordance to my notion of "good".
4. I can't imagine why that would be a goal of any powerful Creator deity, to be honest.
5. A metaphorical figure
6. I guess they're as good or as bad as their Councils and the people sitting in the pews.
So...When do I get my Cup 'O Noodles?