After all this years...
After all this years of being a Christian, I finally come to the conclusion that I don't really know what it means to be a Christian. Expecially during my three years here, (or you could say that the faith I found in cyberspace just has a different " flavour" from the faith of my childhood and my secondary school years.
Never in my whole life have I found so much cynicism in Christianity as expounded in cyberspace. It's hip to be contrary, so it seems, to be contrary. Of course I don't mean that they are contrarians for the sake of being contrary, but sometimes the way the put things can be plain mean (and I am being influenced by it).
There is a characterization of Christianity in terms of it as a counter-cultural movement, a revolution. But it's difficult to see how this reconciles with Jesus characterization of those who will enter the kingdom of God cf " Unless you become like one of these (little children), you will never enter the Kingdom of God."
I see only confusion rife within the vocabulary of Christianity. Opinions, contrary and otherwise, nauncing, balance and "correctness". It is no surprise that dissatisfied people become drawn to the revolutionary stance.
As I partook of the Holy Communion today, I remembered the faith of my childhood and compared it to what I see around me today. I almost cried.
Where is the innoncence?
Never in my whole life have I found so much cynicism in Christianity as expounded in cyberspace. It's hip to be contrary, so it seems, to be contrary. Of course I don't mean that they are contrarians for the sake of being contrary, but sometimes the way the put things can be plain mean (and I am being influenced by it).
There is a characterization of Christianity in terms of it as a counter-cultural movement, a revolution. But it's difficult to see how this reconciles with Jesus characterization of those who will enter the kingdom of God cf " Unless you become like one of these (little children), you will never enter the Kingdom of God."
I see only confusion rife within the vocabulary of Christianity. Opinions, contrary and otherwise, nauncing, balance and "correctness". It is no surprise that dissatisfied people become drawn to the revolutionary stance.
As I partook of the Holy Communion today, I remembered the faith of my childhood and compared it to what I see around me today. I almost cried.
Where is the innoncence?
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