So you can call me Blue. I’m in Grad school and my diversity course got me thinking about my roots and life in the Christian church. It’s been a long struggle for me because at about 12, I always wondered why I never understood what everyone else was talking about in my private Christian school or at 18 in my Christian college.
Everyone seemed so sure of God and Jesus and I never felt it. And if I did “feel” something, I assumed there was a scientific explanation for it (which usually, looking back, there was). I grew up in the church and in a very typical Christian atmosphere, but it never stuck. I have often been referred to as a ‘doubting Thomas’ by friends. I like science. I don’t believe Christianity and science have to be mutually inclusive, but many do and this has caused issues for me growing up.
I left and went to a secular university because we moved out of state, but my parents continue to be very conservative Christians (whom I love- we disagree on things for sure) and I have instead studied and deviated from the path in which I was raised. Many reasons are involved here, but I’m interested to get a different perspective from different people.
My perspectives for the last ten years have been mostly secular, agnostic, or atheistic except for my family. I’m not asking to be convinced, but it’s important to me to understand why people feel the way they do about God.
I have been in conflict since I was a young girl and frankly I’m just tired of it.
I claim existential nihilism often.
Nice to meet you.
Everyone seemed so sure of God and Jesus and I never felt it. And if I did “feel” something, I assumed there was a scientific explanation for it (which usually, looking back, there was). I grew up in the church and in a very typical Christian atmosphere, but it never stuck. I have often been referred to as a ‘doubting Thomas’ by friends. I like science. I don’t believe Christianity and science have to be mutually inclusive, but many do and this has caused issues for me growing up.
I left and went to a secular university because we moved out of state, but my parents continue to be very conservative Christians (whom I love- we disagree on things for sure) and I have instead studied and deviated from the path in which I was raised. Many reasons are involved here, but I’m interested to get a different perspective from different people.
My perspectives for the last ten years have been mostly secular, agnostic, or atheistic except for my family. I’m not asking to be convinced, but it’s important to me to understand why people feel the way they do about God.
I have been in conflict since I was a young girl and frankly I’m just tired of it.
I claim existential nihilism often.
Nice to meet you.