I feel the need to apologize...
Submitted by GCF on February 5 2002 21:32:58
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because from time to time over on BC I have said some not very nice things about fundamentalists and CBF as well. I'm sorry. I still have these issues from my youth that get to me sometimes. I guess I haven't been able to fully forgive them yet. I spent years in self-hate because of words written by fundamentaist preachers and things spoken by televangelists condemning homosexuality. The inner conflict that raged in me from the age of 12 to 18 because of this was very painful. For that reason I avoid all things associated with the judgmental, condemning type of fundamentalist Christianity. But I apologize for taking potshots against people who believe in that. I am certainly in no position to make any judgments about anybody else's faith. I know there are people for whom fundamentalism works for them, so I hope I can keep my mouth shut and stop making smart remarks against people who are not responsible for the pain I endured as a teenager. We all do the best we can to follow Jesus and Christians should not despise one another as I am afraid I have done sometimes. So again, I'm sorry. I haven't had much time to spend on the internet lately, so I may not be around much, but I hope I might be welcome here, even though I am a more liberal (I suppose some would say even heretical perhaps!) type of Christian. Thanks for listenting, maybe nobody even remembers me or the things I said, but I needed to say this. GCF |
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