RE: What's your background?
September 2, 2010 at 1:24 pm
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2010 at 1:48 pm by everythingafter.)
Christian (praise band guitarist, no less) until mid- to late-20s. Although I kept up the church thing as a deist for a few years because I avoided broaching the subject with family and friends until I couldn't continue the game any longer. Like I expected, it was a difficult "coming out" process because I have an unflinchingly evangelical family, and I sometimes get "cornered" by family members about my unbelief. "Don't give up on God ..." comes a frequent line.
I think it's interesting to note that the one issue that made me begin questioning God was homosexuality. I couldn't get around this problem: If people can be born as homosexuals (and I never denied that this is the case), and if homosexuality is immoral based on doctrine and the Bible, what does that say about God?
I think it's interesting to note that the one issue that made me begin questioning God was homosexuality. I couldn't get around this problem: If people can be born as homosexuals (and I never denied that this is the case), and if homosexuality is immoral based on doctrine and the Bible, what does that say about God?
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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