Oof. Actually, I'd have to disagree with your main thrust here: if Christianity is true, then the need for careful thinking on that matter--theology--necessarily follows. If it's not true, then the theology really doesn't matter at all: there's no good or evil, right or wrong, other than what we choose to make up for our own purposes and convenience. You have ended up reducing every critique on any subject that you've ever made--here or elsewhere--to nothing more than "I don't like it."
You may have taken a personal step forward in becoming an agnostic than in being a Christian, but if Christianity is actually true, then your only possible true fulfillment will be in a less- or non-deficient form of Christianity. In that case, yes, a step away from your earlier form of faith would be progress of a sort, but only temporarily. The real question is the truth question, first and foremost. And since I have to get to the library, I'll link to this response where I just responded to a film director friend on the very same question, if you're interested, rather than try to re-type it all here.
I know you don't know me from Adam, and I'm not trying to be an ass, but I do think that the anthropological/sociological take you are accepting on the nature of religion is intellectual suicide, and so I feel compelled, in courtesy, to debate your point.
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Date: 2005-03-22 10:37 pm (UTC)You may have taken a personal step forward in becoming an agnostic than in being a Christian, but if Christianity is actually true, then your only possible true fulfillment will be in a less- or non-deficient form of Christianity. In that case, yes, a step away from your earlier form of faith would be progress of a sort, but only temporarily. The real question is the truth question, first and foremost. And since I have to get to the library, I'll link to this response where I just responded to a film director friend on the very same question, if you're interested, rather than try to re-type it all here.
I know you don't know me from Adam, and I'm not trying to be an ass, but I do think that the anthropological/sociological take you are accepting on the nature of religion is intellectual suicide, and so I feel compelled, in courtesy, to debate your point.
Mike