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Apparently, folks have been doubting stuff for a long, long time. I can’t recommend this book strongly enough. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1505065 ” class=”bbcode_url”> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1505065 I read through the link here, and considered her survey — and my impression was — who is Jennifer Hecht to tell me whether I’m a believer? Similarily, “who is this Bishop to tell me I’m not a good Christian if I don’t do such and such?”. Ultimately we provide our own labels of who we are, and filter all the stimulii, experiences, doctrine we experience through our own inspiration. At times I feel as though I’m neither a believer or a non-believer. I’m a survivalist. I’m learning to survive spiritually and behaviorally in a world where absolute truth is not totally clear. This means a combination of belief and disbelief that coexist comfortably at the same time.
Uh, good point. I hadn’t meant to emphasize the survey thing — an aside largely unrelated to the rest of the book which is, essentially, a history taken from an unusual perspective, and a pretty readable one at that. Having said that, at the time I read the book, it was helpful to me to have Jennifer, whoever she is, tell me there was a believer inside of me when I was certain that any of my ‘peers’ would have told me otherwise. I’m still fairly certain that’s what ‘they’ would tell me, but at this point in my life, that prospect no longer frightens me.
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