Comments on: Don’t defend your ideas – spread them http://silouanthompson.net/2009/12/dont-defend-your-ideas-spread-them/ silouanthompson.net Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:13:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean+ Lotz http://silouanthompson.net/2009/12/dont-defend-your-ideas-spread-them/comment-page-1/#comment-6277 Sean+ Lotz Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:57:00 +0000 http://silouanthompson.net/?p=958#comment-6277 Thank you. I find myself in an interesting position. I am a Christian, but since my "style" of Christianity is so different than the Christianity which I generally encounter in the popular culture in America, I can listen and react almost, I think, as if I were a non-Christian. I know that none of what I see and hear is attractive to me. I would never choose that religion. The defensiveness, the cries of "you must respect me and my religion!", the demands for preferential treatment, are distasteful and disgusting and off-putting. If a religious philosophy can produce no better results than adherents who insist on being wished "Merry Christmas" at WalMart, then who needs it? I can do better myself. Fortunately, I have been exposed to something much better. I myself am not much better, but I know what the Faith can produce in me if I let it. -- Sean+ Thank you. I find myself in an interesting position. I am a Christian, but since my “style” of Christianity is so different than the Christianity which I generally encounter in the popular culture in America, I can listen and react almost, I think, as if I were a non-Christian. I know that none of what I see and hear is attractive to me. I would never choose that religion. The defensiveness, the cries of “you must respect me and my religion!”, the demands for preferential treatment, are distasteful and disgusting and off-putting. If a religious philosophy can produce no better results than adherents who insist on being wished “Merry Christmas” at WalMart, then who needs it? I can do better myself.

Fortunately, I have been exposed to something much better. I myself am not much better, but I know what the Faith can produce in me if I let it.

– Sean+

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