Why is it that we can bounce cell phone conversations off a miles-long chain of towers and yet they haven't devised a good drive-thru speaker system
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This is a good question, of which, I don't think I could really fit into a LJ comments box, at least not coherently. I'm a mix of tragedy + slow erosion, myself.
I totally agree that it was a slow progression for me that started my sophomore year at ACU. That's probably when I could point to a time where I thought God really wasn't there for me. I just happened to come to the end of that journey right after my mom's death, but I really don't think that was THE event for me that made me not believe in God. I'm not that flaky.
I wonder if there's some kind of "support" group for ACU alums who are "recovering Christians." I think my journey toward unbelief started at college, too, once I was away from my parents. I remember listening to lectures about making faith "your own, not your parents'" and becoming "mature" in Christianity and I knew then that the Christian faith was NOT my own. And I didn't really want it to be.
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Maybe I'm wrong about the tragedy thing; maybe it IS miracles and tragedies that solidify or tear down religious faith.
For me, though, I think it was just finally realizing that I didn't ever believe in the first place.
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