Monthly Archives: October 2007

I have a friend who tells me that he is a follower of Christ because he really thinks he doesn’t have any choice. Like the apostle Peter, who, when asked by Christ if he and the other disciples would leave, said “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”, my friend says he knows that he has been chosen by Christ and has no where else to go.

I, on the other hand, don’t usually find myself in that camp. More often than not, I find myself wondering how I still believe after everything I’ve heard and seen, growing up in church and around religion. And there are times, like after browsing a christian bookstore or hearing another sermon that comes off more like an argument from ignorance, or having to endure another ‘praise and worship’ song, that it is hard not to be convinced that Christianity is nothing more than opium for the masses, a (sometimes) clever story created by and for the delusional. Continue reading →

“I don’t know why people are surprised or embarrassed when they find out their faith is weak and full of holes. It’s because they are weak and full of holes.” At a conference I was at two weeks ago at … Continue reading →