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I have had a lot of time to come to think about this, a very long story short, I was raised in a Christian "cult", so I had a lot of reconcilliation between the things I learned as a child and the things that I experienced as a young adult and later. The one thing that has stayed with me all these years happened in High School, someone asked me what religion I was and I said "Christian" (which was really the only thing I could answer) and the girl looked at me like I was an idiot and said, "We're *all* Christians." I realized at that time that a) she was an ignorant twat and b) being Christian was enough for me.
My quest for spiritual growth through accepting that I cannot know everything, so I'll just look for the things I can understand and act accordingly. My job especially requires me to be more open to discussions on faith, since many of my patients face life and death decisions and I have to listen and affirm their faith without judging it or them. I'm not the one they have to face on the other side, so I'm sure not going to tell them their wrong on this side. Lots of time to think...maybe too much ;-)
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Date: 2008-03-25 04:21 am (UTC)I have had a lot of time to come to think about this, a very long story short, I was raised in a Christian "cult", so I had a lot of reconcilliation between the things I learned as a child and the things that I experienced as a young adult and later. The one thing that has stayed with me all these years happened in High School, someone asked me what religion I was and I said "Christian" (which was really the only thing I could answer) and the girl looked at me like I was an idiot and said, "We're *all* Christians." I realized at that time that a) she was an ignorant twat and b) being Christian was enough for me.
My quest for spiritual growth through accepting that I cannot know everything, so I'll just look for the things I can understand and act accordingly. My job especially requires me to be more open to discussions on faith, since many of my patients face life and death decisions and I have to listen and affirm their faith without judging it or them. I'm not the one they have to face on the other side, so I'm sure not going to tell them their wrong on this side. Lots of time to think...maybe too much ;-)