i appreciate, gregg, that you ask christians to honor the god they serve by challenging them to apply their minds to life.it seems my earlier childhood experiences of sunday school and christian education rarely, if ever, spoke of the intellect or thinking in honorable ways. thought and reason and logic, creativity and psychology were looked upon with suspicion. and science and medicine were real problem areas for the true “believers”, as they were sort of seen as rivals to true faith. it actually seemed more anti-intellectual, as if we couldn’t be trusted to believe our own senses in regards to our beliefs. i wonder why, now?but then, i was raised southern baptist.
i appreciate, gregg, that you ask christians to honor the god they serve by challenging them to apply their minds to life.it seems my earlier childhood experiences of sunday school and christian education rarely, if ever, spoke of the intellect or thinking in honorable ways. thought and reason and logic, creativity and psychology were looked upon with suspicion. and science and medicine were real problem areas for the true “believers”, as they were sort of seen as rivals to true faith. it actually seemed more anti-intellectual, as if we couldn’t be trusted to believe our own senses in regards to our beliefs. i wonder why, now?but then, i was raised southern baptist.