Comments on: Deeper and Deeper Still: How I Became Even More Christian http://shatternicely.com/2010/02/deeper-and-deeper-still-how-i-became-even-more-christian/ Thoughts on religion, atheism, and life from a former evangelical Christian Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:01:00 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Shatter Nicely » Blog Archive » The Perfect Storm: How I Stopped Believing in God http://shatternicely.com/2010/02/deeper-and-deeper-still-how-i-became-even-more-christian/#comment-132 Shatter Nicely » Blog Archive » The Perfect Storm: How I Stopped Believing in God Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:27:36 +0000 http://shatternicely.com/?p=299#comment-132 [...] Deeper and Deeper Still: How I Became Even More Christian [...] [...] Deeper and Deeper Still: How I Became Even More Christian [...]

]]> By: Charity http://shatternicely.com/2010/02/deeper-and-deeper-still-how-i-became-even-more-christian/#comment-128 Charity Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:50:57 +0000 http://shatternicely.com/?p=299#comment-128 Thanks for your comments, Bill. Sorry that I just now approved them. They were in the spam folder. I love the way you sum up spiritual warfare: "Satan is fixated on ME, God is FIXATED on ME." It seems so obvious when not in it. I am hoping to get the next installment done in the next couple of days. It's hard to deal with all of the emotions it brings up in addition to dealing with the day-to-day fallout from this worldview change on top of it. Thanks for your comments, Bill. Sorry that I just now approved them. They were in the spam folder.

I love the way you sum up spiritual warfare: “Satan is fixated on ME, God is FIXATED on ME.” It seems so obvious when not in it.

I am hoping to get the next installment done in the next couple of days. It’s hard to deal with all of the emotions it brings up in addition to dealing with the day-to-day fallout from this worldview change on top of it.

]]> By: Bill Gnade http://shatternicely.com/2010/02/deeper-and-deeper-still-how-i-became-even-more-christian/#comment-119 Bill Gnade Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:03:06 +0000 http://shatternicely.com/?p=299#comment-119 Wow, Charity. This is an amazing confessional. You're telling a gripping story, really, and you've got me hooked. This by no means is meant to pressure you for the next installment. Egads, I would think after this essay you'd have to take a few days off, at least. You are doing something really interesting here, and I thank you for it. Can I share one thing? My faith really started to go off the rails when my peers and my church got into the whole spiritual warfare fad. Oh, my, what a dreadful thing. It's mostly a bunch of Christian witchcraft or occultism, if you ask me. It is filled with incantations and spells, as if saying the "right thing" in just the "right way" will guarantee nothing but bliss, financial security, and an exit from any fire. God becomes talismanic, as does the Bible: Say X and Y and Z in just the right sequence and with just the right amount of faith, and God has no freedom: He MUST part life's waters in your favor. Or something like that. Thankfully, I got away from such mumbo-jumbo. I am still a Christian, of course, but I got out of that "warfare" stuff just in time. After all, such stuff caters to self-centered, narcissistic tendencies: Satan is fixated on ME, God is FIXATED on ME. Anyhow, you've nailed a lot on the head here. Thanks. Wow, Charity. This is an amazing confessional. You’re telling a gripping story, really, and you’ve got me hooked. This by no means is meant to pressure you for the next installment. Egads, I would think after this essay you’d have to take a few days off, at least.

You are doing something really interesting here, and I thank you for it.

Can I share one thing? My faith really started to go off the rails when my peers and my church got into the whole spiritual warfare fad. Oh, my, what a dreadful thing. It’s mostly a bunch of Christian witchcraft or occultism, if you ask me. It is filled with incantations and spells, as if saying the “right thing” in just the “right way” will guarantee nothing but bliss, financial security, and an exit from any fire. God becomes talismanic, as does the Bible: Say X and Y and Z in just the right sequence and with just the right amount of faith, and God has no freedom: He MUST part life’s waters in your favor. Or something like that.

Thankfully, I got away from such mumbo-jumbo. I am still a Christian, of course, but I got out of that “warfare” stuff just in time. After all, such stuff caters to self-centered, narcissistic tendencies: Satan is fixated on ME, God is FIXATED on ME.

Anyhow, you’ve nailed a lot on the head here. Thanks.

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