Easter Questions

[sub_sequent]

Questions are good, Ian. Thinking about what you believe, and WHY you believe it, is important if you want to be honest with yourself.

I want to absolutely agree here with Thorne. I also believe that people should ask questions. Difficult questions. Even questions that might offend some people...... IF your goal is to actually find the answers to these questions. Then i believe, if a person is actually willing to listen and learn, then they will eventually find the answers they are looking for.

One thing I've noticed repeatedly happening in the current fiasco that is the Republican primary race is the constant harping about "liberal" knowledge, and controlling what we allow our children to learn. It's almost as if these people don't want their children to think too much, because they might actually learn that the Emperor has no clothes!

Not being American i don't have the context of the examples you mention here but something i absolutely believe in is that the truth, the real truth, does not need to be defended or cencored . It sometimes needs to be explained or illustrated but never defended. Parts of it doesn't need to be hidden away. I never feel offended by questions people ask about my personal faith. I also never fight about it.
If it needs to be added to, taken away from it or 'held up' it can't be the Real Truth. By definition it needs to be able to stand questioning. i have questioned. And came to the conclusions i have stated. This is not to say i understand it all. I don't. But that is why i continue to ask questions.

[Thorne]

i have questioned. And came to the conclusions i have stated. This is not to say i understand it all. I don't. But that is why i continue to ask questions.

Which puts you several steps ahead of the average American theist. I can respect someone who has actually looked at her faith and questioned it. There are far too many people who can't, or won't, do that.

But have you asked yourself why YOUR religion is right but someone else's is not? Try this out to see if you have really questioned your faith as deeply as you think you have.