Posted by Chelonian on August 17, 1999 at 19:47:42:
In Reply to: my story is sort of what you want - and a website that may help posted by Hawk on August 17, 1999 at 18:23:55:
Hawk, thanks for the link. It looks like they're still putting up the site, but they did have some interesting links to other Xian perspective atheist pages, which are interesting.
I completely sympathize with you're statement, "I guess I am sort of a don't know don't care agnostic right now," except I wish I could take a pill to make myself not care. The problem with trying to be open-minded and absolutely objective--a idealized state which sits on an unreachable pedestal--is that it becomes hard to "get on with life," something cried, indeed howled, by existentialists and post-modernists. Ultimately, our psyche demands that we form an opinion, and to deny it such perspective makes it really cranky!
Unfortunately, this nation seems to be broiling on the issues of God, science, logic, faith, reason, ultimate origins, etc., so it becomes hard to ignore these things. So, for people trying to keep an open mind, being exposed to all the know-it-all's can be down-right tortuous. Confusion IS the natural response. There are two types of persons regarding timeless or "eternal" questions such as we are dealing with: those who are confused, and those who haven't thought about it that deeply.
Hume said -- "Be a philosopher, but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man." (forgive the gender exclusion)