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cbayer

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4. Let me ask you this question, longship.

Reply to longship (Reply #3)

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 03:10 PM

Sep 2013

Could you choose to be a believer? Or is you lack a belief a part of who you are?

There are those (not all) who have tried to believe and can't. The reverse is true as well.

I'm not saying it's true for all. I think some people believe because that is how they were raised and there are aspects of their religion other than the belief in a god that appeals to them. And then there are others who don't really believe or not believe. They just don't know and are comfortable with that.

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After a Crisis of Faith, Finding a New Secular Mission [View all] cbayer Sep 2013 OP

I wonder if she's aware of the "Clergy Project" longship Sep 2013 #1

I would think she would be aware of it, as she is exactly the cbayer Sep 2013 #2

That's why I posed the question. longship Sep 2013 #3

Let me ask you this question, longship. cbayer Sep 2013 #4

That's a good way to put it. longship Sep 2013 #6

There may be some way to look at this in the future. cbayer Sep 2013 #8

Yup. Saw the first two episodes. longship Sep 2013 #9

Lol, just found this. She's the executive director of the Clergy Project. cbayer Sep 2013 #5

Bingo! I like her even more. longship Sep 2013 #7

Saint Paul warned us cogently to beware of new converts. One of his wiser remarks, as dimbear Sep 2013 #10