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What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
I find this an odd question because Christianity as a whole if chock full of problematic issues from an intellectual perspective as well as from a general perspective of human decency. I first started reading the Bible and going to church out of social and intellectual curiosity as a 4 year old. I couldn't believe how absurd, indecent, and harmful the teachings were. However learning about it taught me quite a lot about sociology, psychology and learning, violence, people, society...American society, that is, a culture particularly informed by religion. I could never forfeit my own power of mind and critical thinking or my decent moral value system to such a horridly disasterous substitute.

I often wondered why what was so clearly a catastrophic mental and cultural problem to me, was the norm of social philosophy a nd organization for almost everyone else. I learned the reasons why I as I grew into a more socially aware adolescent and teenager.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
(March 7, 2018 at 7:36 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Big thread so maybe I missed this, but I'd think a major source of anxiety for all believers would be an overwhelming concern about 'doing it' correctly. Like, is our church's doxology correct? Are we wearing the right clothes? Is vorlon right about worrying about our allowing menstruating women in our facility? Is our minister unknowingly an 'unto the 10th generation' God enemy that cannot lead ANYONE to Salvation? Is our version of the Bible correct? Is there a better denomination I should be attending? When I wear a hat, is the width of the brim correct? I might have blasphemed the Holy Spirit when I was drunk during college, I can't fix that now, can I? Do I go to church and celebrate the Sabbath on the right day? Should I be as Jewish as Jesus was, just to be sure?

How do believers alleviate the real worries that have spawned so many disagreements in their religion?

A really good post - good question.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
Which Christian narrative? Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?
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Did Hooky boy ever come back?
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(March 21, 2018 at 12:55 pm)Wololo Wrote: Did Hooky boy ever come back?

Nope, typical post and run.
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