Going Back & Finding Nothing There

[WastedLife]

Thanks everyone for replying

I remember when I was doing research into the book I was writing at the time and visited a Christian book store. I had this feeling as if I had walked into a mental asylum, only the inmates were in charge. It just amazes me how anyone could ever have believed any of this stuff, never mind in today's age when we've discovered so much that was once a mystery.

I can remember going into Christian bookstores while a believer and even I saw there was something amiss. I did think "I'm a space cadet but these people are in a different universe entirely" when around these people They seemed so vague, so out of it.

What used to amaze me about some of these Christians was how they could take issue with certain passages and actually go against the church on key issues like women's rights, gay marriage etc etc yet never look any more critically than that. It's almost as if the processes involved which led them to realize some of their belief is nonsense stops short of the bits which protect them against fire damage

I found the whole thing just creepy really, the congregation seemed like zombies to me. There just wasn't the sense of questioning, thinking or spontaneity in their eyes like I am drawn to in the people I associate with socially.

Their eyes just seemed dead and their smiles were like those in a mental asylum.

As former minister Jerry DeWitt would say "Can I get a Darwin?" (Amen)

Been there, seen that and sadly have the t-shirt though it's now all stretched where I put my head (brain) through

I haven't been to church since my mother's funeral six years ago. But the church my parents went to (Catholic) didn't have such an assembly of zombies. These were nice people and when I meet some of them on the streets, we usually talk for a good while. Religion doesn't come into such conversations.

Interestingly, I found Catholics to be by and large lovely people. Their beliefs are some of the most restrictive within Christian circles and yet they didn't seem so constrained by it as us in the more liberal strands of it.

Unless you prove to be a nutter.

I'm going to have to disappoint you on that score. I have noticed the incidences of nuttiness have lessened interestingly just as my religious fervor has waned.