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Originally Posted by PsiCop  Upon signing up, I was asked to post an introduction, so I will. To preserve everyone's sanity, I'll keep it short.
I was raised Catholic, became a fundamentalist Christian in college, eventually fell out of that and, over time, became an Agnostic.
My degree is in medieval history, with a special study of the scholastics. Also the history of early Christianity has been a particular interest of mine, despite the fact that I'm no longer a "believer." In hindsight I attribute my current lack of belief in Christianity with my studies; reading the canonical and non-canonical early Christian texts in their original languages revealed aspects of Christianity which are not obvious in translation. Moreover, I found that the historical record has been trampled and undermined by subsequent Christianity, so that there are a great many things about early Christianity which we no longer have any chance to know with certainty.
All right, I promised to keep it short ... so that's it, for now! | Welcome!
I'm gonna check out those essays you've written. Thanks for sharing!
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And on we walked. Suddenly we heard a voice crying, "This is the sea. This is the deep sea. This is the vast and mighty sea." And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned to the sea, and at his ear he held a shell, listening to its murmur.
And my soul said, "Let us pass on. He is the realist, who turns his back on the whole he cannot grasp, and busies himself with a fragment."
—Gibran Khalil Gibran, “The Greater Sea.” |