hortonthrockmorton
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My Interests:
Interfaith issues, History, Movies, TV, Books, Family, Marriage, Parenting, Christian history, baseball, jazz, Mexican food
My Favorite Books, Authors, Musicians, Movies, Preachers, TV shows, etc:
Favorite (current) TV shows: Heroes, Smallville, Burn Notice, Top Chef, Reaper, Chuck, Pushing Daisies, Life. (I like TV)
My favorite spiritual activities:
Acapella singing
What's your spiritual type?:
Questioning Believer - I have doubts about the particulars but not the Big Stuff.
About Me
I'm a forty-something Christian agnostic, married with children. I affirm the beliefs and teachings of credal Christianity but I believe it is impossible to have certain knowledge that these beliefs are true. Faith, in my understanding, is not about believing in the right facts about God and Jesus. Faith is trusting that what Jesus taught us about God is true, and living one's life accordingly. Jesus may be the way, the truth, and the light, but that does not mean Christians are the only ones on the road.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. -- Dean Vernon Wormer
My Basics
Location: Houston area, Texas, USA
Gender: Male
Relationship Status: Married
Faiths:
Christian,
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March 1, 2008 - 11:11 AM
Yes, religion sometimes is overly dogmatic and tells people what to think. But 'spirituality' often means simply thinking any damn fool thing, no matter how stupid. If there is any grain of truth in the cliche of religion being oppressively authoritarian, then there is equally a grain of truth in the clich of 'spirituality' being self-centered silliness.