here here, living out what is not true is much more painful—and not just in the long run. it is more painful every day.
i grew up a christian. there is a parable about a man who gives up everything he has in order to find the “pearl of great price” which he knows is buried in a field. so he sells everything to buy the field, and then he is able to legally dig up the treasure. in other words he’s done the work and has the right to the reward. i know this will sound crazy to most christians, but giving up christianity was my way of selling everything i had to find the pearl of great price.
This is how I felt as well, that my personal discovery of atheism was merely the next step in my life having been raised as a Christian. Losing religion and coming clean about it was the test of my integrity, which was formed under the wing of the Bible and Christianity.
giving up Christianity was my way of selling everything i had to find the pearl of great price
It’s very hard to do. I gave up Christianity 39 years ago and I’m still finding large chunks of it floating around in my brain. This was the point of “God is dead”—people no longer believed in God but unconsciously carry on as if it were still true.
here here, living out what is not true is much more painful—and not just in the long run. it is more painful every day.
i grew up a christian. there is a parable about a man who gives up everything he has in order to find the “pearl of great price” which he knows is buried in a field. so he sells everything to buy the field, and then he is able to legally dig up the treasure. in other words he’s done the work and has the right to the reward. i know this will sound crazy to most christians, but giving up christianity was my way of selling everything i had to find the pearl of great price.
Yes.
This is how I felt as well, that my personal discovery of atheism was merely the next step in my life having been raised as a Christian. Losing religion and coming clean about it was the test of my integrity, which was formed under the wing of the Bible and Christianity.
It’s very hard to do. I gave up Christianity 39 years ago and I’m still finding large chunks of it floating around in my brain. This was the point of “God is dead”—people no longer believed in God but unconsciously carry on as if it were still true.