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Odysseus - I think most intelligent people will have periods of doubt
about what they believe at some point in their lives.
It is just a natural part of the maturation process. Your comment overall seems to be a recounting of a scenario that any person might experience while growing up but then you say this: "But, instead of turning viciously against God" .....that is entirely your opinion if you are suggesting that I have turned viciously against God. I am against a lot of things pertaining to the behaviour of those who believe in God, I am also against the insistence of too many people that I need their God simply because they do.
posted by
gomedome
on August 30, 2006 at 2:03 PM
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It’s clear that you’ve been exposed
to some very intense manifestations of varied religious extremism, over your life. I’ve read previously about some of your church experiences as well. And I, as well, have certain childhood recollections that are quite extreme. I remember, as a child of about eight, sitting in a Sunday school class and listening to the adult teacher explain why the white and Negro should not interbreed. She essentially said that such an action should not occur because the result (offspring) would be something that God did not create. I remember being taken aback by this at the moment and it never left my mind. In fact, this event actually instigated the first skepticism that I remember and much other doubt followed as I began to have concerns with this particular denomination. I came to see that so much of what was being expounded with similarly comprised of tainted opinion. But, instead of turning viciously against God, I instead asked myself,
what can I believe in?
Need I allow misguided extremists to define my God? I discovered that we can all believe in something, at some level. I think there is great benefit to flipping it all over and engaging the optimistic perspective of figuring out what it is that is believable for us and then building subsequent truths upon that. OMG, I’m starting to run on too much here….so sorry….I’ve said enough…bye..bye!
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telemachus
on August 30, 2006 at 1:33 PM
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