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The Man Who Learned Too Much
May 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Faith and Doubt
williamlobdell.com
The views of a reluctant atheist, forged in the furnace of doubt
The Latest on Faith and Doubt- What I will read this summer
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- Why The Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up
- Lewis Black: You gotta have faith
- Its hard to keep my faith right now
- Questioning vs. Doubting
- Doubt
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- Let Me Worship as I Am
William Lobdell's Journey
- LA Times story: Religion beat became a test of faith
- NPR interview: “Paradise lost”
- NPR interview: “Reporter’s Religion Beat Leads to Faith Crisis”
- Live online chat with www.latimes.com readers
- The religion beat, American Public Media radio
- Religion writer loses religion, Freethought Radio
1 response so far ↓
1 ChrisK // May 12, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I find your story fascinating because in your life you’ve apparently felt the most sublime of Christian feelings, and then the most clinical of skeptical feelings. I’m agnostic, mostly atheist, but I think some of my Christian friends would (lovingly) dismiss my feelings, saying it’s because I haven’t known Jesus in my heart, or something similar.
If a friend or your child said to you that they were unsure of their beliefs, and they told you they were going to the type of religious retreat you attended that started your Christian belief in 1989, would you warn them away?
I can’t quite get a reading on whether you’re saying that belief in God is a problem because it lays a person open to the abuses you’ve seen in religion.
Thank you, Bill. All the best to you in your search and work.
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