it is interesting that you follow that pattern and i thank you for the warning. it is flattering to have someone show such interest, but i will not expect it to characterize you. i almost never ask questions to which i don't really want the answer. at least not from people i'm not dating. i really am curious about what is making you sick, and also if it has changed how you view yourself in addition to how you spend your time. i know mark baird in person. i met him because my husband and several of his friends used to work at the renaissance festival together. mark still does and plays music there and for weddings and such. but i don't know him well. i will also pretty much answer anything you ask.
i'm glad that i can show a positive light on christianity for you. doing just that is a chief part of my calling and one of the reason i am not getting ordained. most of my friends(and my husband) are non-christians; atheists, agnostics, jews, neo-pagans...and many of them have been wounded by the church. my first taste of christianity was lousy too. full of cheap platitudes and authoritarian-asshole adults who thought i should do what they told me and shut up. i left the church. i know what it's like and it means a lot to me to be an example that not all christians are fundamentalists or close-minded (though we are all hypocrites). i feel i would be able to do that less well if i were ordained. also i have a bit of a problem with authority.
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Date: 2007-07-20 05:02 pm (UTC)i almost never ask questions to which i don't really want the answer. at least not from people i'm not dating. i really am curious about what is making you sick, and also if it has changed how you view yourself in addition to how you spend your time.
i know mark baird in person. i met him because my husband and several of his friends used to work at the renaissance festival together. mark still does and plays music there and for weddings and such. but i don't know him well.
i will also pretty much answer anything you ask.
i'm glad that i can show a positive light on christianity for you. doing just that is a chief part of my calling and one of the reason i am not getting ordained. most of my friends(and my husband) are non-christians; atheists, agnostics, jews, neo-pagans...and many of them have been wounded by the church.
my first taste of christianity was lousy too. full of cheap platitudes and authoritarian-asshole adults who thought i should do what they told me and shut up. i left the church. i know what it's like and it means a lot to me to be an example that not all christians are fundamentalists or close-minded (though we are all hypocrites). i feel i would be able to do that less well if i were ordained. also i have a bit of a problem with authority.