Why I Still Talk to Jesus -- In Spite of Everything
It isn’t about "correct belief" but about life, love and character.
Following her mother’s example my first child Jessica returned love for my clumsy-to-bad-to-mean “fathering…” She was born when I was 18 but I eventually grew up. When she was a young adult I asked Jessica to forgive me for the times I’d pulled her hair, for the slaps and unkind yelling she endured as [...]
I have seen the power of forgiveness work to heal my former religious “certainties.” (I wrote about this journey in what my publishers call “The God Trilogy” — Crazy For God, Patience With God and Sex, Mom and God.) Those certainties gave my primate nastiness a patriarchal theological boost of self-justification. So before I could [...]
It’s tempting to rationalize my bad behavior as “caused” by wrong ideas. But blaming wrong beliefs for our true biological natures is as crazy as thinking that right ideas will save us. So when atheists blame religion for war, they are being as silly as Christians who blame atheism for the Gulag. And thinking you [...]
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