tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746468652435913462.post6831041605715539397..comments2023-09-20T09:39:24.282-04:00Comments on Spirit in the Wild Wood: why Christianity is so diversededhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04110715735805987539noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746468652435913462.post-52058500310288787102007-10-26T13:13:00.000-04:002007-10-26T13:13:00.000-04:00Well what is the reason for this great diversity? ...Well what is the reason for this great diversity? <BR/>For my part: As we see glimpses of what it should be I think we are inevitably stretched beyond what it appears to be. I have heard that Truth is better known in the yearning for a perfect world or church than our opinionated creeds.Josiahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07707515903493183511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746468652435913462.post-15946974489429151082007-10-25T20:17:00.000-04:002007-10-25T20:17:00.000-04:00Once I had left the organized church, I told mysel...<EM>Once I had left the organized church, I told myself I wanted to think again. I had allowed myself to think only what I had been told was safe to think for too long.... (This is not intended to suggest that organized religion does this routinely. It is simply what I experienced.)</EM><BR/><BR/>Sadly, this was my experience, too. Well, it's not "sadly" anymore because I can think again! :) But yeah, being told what to read, what not to read, what was "safe", etc.<BR/><BR/>Funny how those are characteristics of what many of those same people would label in others as being "cult-like".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com