** Now that I'm looking for them, I find that many people have had experiences similar to mine, even though I used to believe the religion I practiced was so very different from all the others that there could be no comparison. But theology is theology no matter what the stripe, and once one understands that there is no "theos" then all the "logy" is just academic hair splitting. I will share, from time to time, selected stories that at least remind me of my own, and may serve as a platform for others to appraise what it is they are living and dying for. Here is the beginning of an account by "Brother Crow:"
I was a minister for over 25 years, very serious about thoughtful Christianity, a graduate of Emory University with undergrad study in psychology and grad study in religion/theology. Studied anthropology and mythology along the way, because I was fascinated with origins, and because I had a lingering suspicion even in those days that much of what I believed was probably myth. I was a person who chose to believe in the face of dogged unbelief. I struggled with intellectual concerns with Christianity from the day I was "born again" - but my conversion experience was so emotionally gratifying and gave me such acceptance in a tight-knit community that I chose to turn off or "closet" my reasonable objections and simply believe the unbelievable.
And, that is one of the reasons I actually "deconverted" or came out of the closet...I grew tired, after 25 years - of seeing emotion and acceptance be awarded to the converted for choosing to believe something that has no basis in reality. I could no longer live with my own sense of compromised integrity and intellectual dishonesty.
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