Sunday, November 23, 2008

The Logic of Christianity

When I was growing up in the church, especially as an adult, I began to ask a lot of questions. I would ask one, and probably get an answer, which wouldn't really answer my question fully, but would lead to another question. The person I was answering would be increasingly frustrated until they would finally just get annoyed and tell me how rebellious I was, or they would hint that I was just purposely being difficult.

I wondered if it was my presentation until I heard another person talking about it on a great forum I've been to, De-conversion.com.

He said he asked a lot of questions, too, until
"...they essentially threw up their hands and assumed I must just be acting willfully difficult."

Another person, in responding, said that you have to understand something. In the Christian mindset:
Christianity has all the answers to the questions that are important. If we do not have the answer, it must not be important. If it is not important, then making it important is divisive. Divisiveness is wrong. Therefore asking questions we do not have the answers to is wrong.


I thik that sums it up.

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