Happy to say hello and thank you for your honest words. I still consider myself a Christian but I'm not sure if others would agree!!! Suffering has probably caused me to question a lot of what I believed. Certainty is gone, the bible is under the microscope currently and if I'm honest I know I wont be satisfied by the answers to questions. I have loved so many parts about christianity , mostly the community and the sense of love and purpose. It has been a means of healing of my life but suffering has pulled back a curtain and the ground is pretty shaky beneath my feet.
I’ll answer your second question. In leaving fundamentalist and evangelical Christianity, I have always feared losing people. I feared losing a cultural context in which I knew exactly what to do. When I learned to comply with expectations, I gained the approval of a whole church full of people (literally--they stood up for me at my “proving”). I had cracked the cultural code. To leave means to risk abandonment.
I've somehow managed to remove most hints of the "Abrahamic Mythos" from my world. While taking chapters of it and others to paint a picture, that meets "my" needs.
I don't have a lot to say here, as someone who never believed in a god despite church and Sunday School from the age of six to fourteen. And despite growing up in Northern Ireland. On our too brief meeting I considered you the funniest (as in humorous) Christian I had come across. I wondered how such things could be compatible, which I guess says something for my experience. I'll continue to read and follow with interest.
Happy to say hello and thank you for your honest words. I still consider myself a Christian but I'm not sure if others would agree!!! Suffering has probably caused me to question a lot of what I believed. Certainty is gone, the bible is under the microscope currently and if I'm honest I know I wont be satisfied by the answers to questions. I have loved so many parts about christianity , mostly the community and the sense of love and purpose. It has been a means of healing of my life but suffering has pulled back a curtain and the ground is pretty shaky beneath my feet.
I’ll answer your second question. In leaving fundamentalist and evangelical Christianity, I have always feared losing people. I feared losing a cultural context in which I knew exactly what to do. When I learned to comply with expectations, I gained the approval of a whole church full of people (literally--they stood up for me at my “proving”). I had cracked the cultural code. To leave means to risk abandonment.
Beautifully written.
Dear Katy, You are such a talented writer. I really enjoy your articles. Good job, as always.
I've somehow managed to remove most hints of the "Abrahamic Mythos" from my world. While taking chapters of it and others to paint a picture, that meets "my" needs.
Thank you. I'm pondering.
I don't have a lot to say here, as someone who never believed in a god despite church and Sunday School from the age of six to fourteen. And despite growing up in Northern Ireland. On our too brief meeting I considered you the funniest (as in humorous) Christian I had come across. I wondered how such things could be compatible, which I guess says something for my experience. I'll continue to read and follow with interest.