The "Humor Me" Survey

[ljhornmoy]

Okay, there is a particular assumptipn in evancelical Christianity that I need to test. Please answer this poll question simply as it is asked. In short, have you heard this news, not whether you accept it or not. Your vote will not be visible to the general public. Though, granted, LJ readers may not be a fully random sample, but since I am doing

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[pipibluestockin]

I'd like to leave the caveat that I was taken to church as a child. On the grounds that it would be good for me (installation of morals etc).

As a logically thinking adult, with a good understanding of the history of christianity, belief is somewhat embarrassing.

[ljhornmoy]

Exactly the same story for me. For a lot of others too, I suspect (he wrote, probably tipping his hand).

I apologize if I'm being a bit dense, but in your last sentence, do you mean it's embarrassing for you to have belief or are you speaking generally? I'm a tad unclear.

Thanks for replying, Pipi! Peace.

[pipibluestockin]

I was speaking in a personal sense.

[ljhornmoy]

I thought so, but I wasn't sure.

In that case, I am fully on the same page. Too many church-goers in my country expect you to check your brain at the door, but that collides with my unshakable belief that - if God indeed created me - then he created this mind I have and so expects me to use it. So, yeah - conflict time!

Hm... conflict, the heart of a story... now if I'd just shake my stupid depressive paralysis and actually write again.

Thanks again, Pipi!

[blackdjinn]

I'd really rather be surprised that those concepts might be unfamiliar to anyone brought up among European or American Continent populations. I was brought up an atheist of the Metaphysical Naturalist school so never really went to a church for anything but weddings etc. I am still quite familiar with Jesus's message and the stories about him. This sort of thing would, in my opinion, fall under 'cultural literacy' more than anything else. Christianity so deeply informs our art, culture and language that to fail to understand it is to fail to be connected to the world we live in.

As for the assumption, I'm pretty sure I can guess.

[ljhornmoy]

Yup, that you can. :-)

I should be writing my entry on this with my explanation soon. My sample is significant, if not large. Given that two of my three staunch atheist/agnostic friends have replied is key.

Thanks for commenting. Ciao dude!