Chris "Kierkegaard is way cool. I'm not actually a Christian, though" Doss
--- On Thu, 1/29/09, Dwayne Monroe <dwayne.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a person who grew up in the Christian tradition (the
> Protestant
> tradition in which, unlike Holy Mother Catholicism,
> you're obliged to
> read the Bible from cover to cover, committing long
> passages to memory
> "study to show thyself approved..." 2 Tim. 2:15
> instructs) -- and who
> kept an appreciation for the experience's positive
> social and
> intellectual aspects while jettisoning the supernatural --
> I'm
> gob-smacked by people who travel in the opposite direction.
>
> >From politically minded atheism (or maybe agnosticism)
> to a confused
> kind of faith which, due to its late arrival, tends to be
> burn extra
> bright is not my idea of progress.
>
>