(January 4, 2014 at 3:48 am)ChildOfReason Wrote: I have to write a "statement of faith", an essay basically stating why I believe in god. I have another problem, I'm bad at making up arguments for my opposite viewpoint, even though I tend to lie pathologically. I may feel strongly about it, but I'm not actually going to mind the confirmation, it's just this "Statement of faith" that I'm going to have a lot of trouble with.My guess is, try and find theologians in your denomination, find the arguments they use and bullshit around that. I know when I had to do mine, I decided to just bullshit for about a page some stuff from Luther's Small Catechism. My pastor loved it.
Fortunately, after I got confirmed, I wound up having as little as humanly possible to do with the church. It helps that my family were never regular churchgoers, our church turned out to be insanely corrupt, and I wound up going to a Catholic High School.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.