tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post7975688883784458274..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: CommunityRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-53222950692113209172014-02-19T17:18:26.491-05:002014-02-19T17:18:26.491-05:00It's analogous to an adult blaming others for ...It's analogous to an adult blaming others for almost starving to death because all his life others were spoon feeding him; and then all of a sudden he started starving because they stopped feeding him. But by the time you're an adult you should be able to feed yourself. If you don't know how to hold a spoon and bring it to your mouth, blame yourself. Or if you've realized that what you were scooping up with your spoon wasn't food and you were eating it, blame yourself. Don't blame others.ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-42302297108344614382014-02-19T17:08:19.117-05:002014-02-19T17:08:19.117-05:00So they feel really lonely and even angry that the...<i>So they feel really lonely and even angry that they have been lied to all their lives. </i><br /><br />Lied to ALL their lives? It's true that some people become Christians because they were brought up in a Christian environment. But by the time people come to a place of even flirting with atheism or agnosticism, shouldn't they have first gotten to a place where their faith wasn't dependent on the say so of family and friends but also on reasoned evidence and/or a real experience of God? If they were diligent seekers of the truth while Christians, then at the very least they should also say they were SELF-deceived Christians as well. So, making the statement that they had "been lied to all their lives" is either an admission of intellectual laziness during their time as Christians OR of wanting to blame others for their past Christian belief. It's a refusal to own up to their own part in their own deception (probably out of embarrassment). But there's nothing to be embarrassed about if you were sincerely seeking the truth and at the time believed you were following it as a Christian. Therefore, I suspect that in many cases they are actually embarrassed for having been so gullible. In other words, they were intellectually and/or spiritually lazy and they didn't believed based on either reasoned evidence and/or on a real experience of God. They never had good reasons to believe or never truly believed in the first place. Their faith was a sham, they know it (consciously or subconsciously), and they're embarrassed by it. That's why they blame others for "lying" to them.ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.com