Reply #36: I think you've basically got it right [View All]

[JerseygirlCT]

as a nonliteralist, liberal Christian, I'm pretty much live and let live on issues of theology. I mean, I do think I've got it right on a few things that literalists have quite wrong ;), but if they're not going to insist on agreement with their ideas, we can get along.

In my little corner of Christianity, doubt is not the opposite of faith, but an integral part of faith. Questions mark the real searcher; blind obediance does not.

And yes, I've often been puzzled by the friction between atheists and liberal Christians here... we're usually coming from similar places, even if we don't share the same religious beliefs.

As to worrying about whether literalists think I'm Christian... I don't. I can't accept their interpretation of the term, so I can't worry about whether I fit their definition. In some ways, its a comfort NOT to fit their definitions!