The Touchiest of Subjects - Original 2/18/2010
I find it interesting that people often refer to themselves or others with the phrase " I have lost my religion" or " He wondered away from his good learning". As I get older, almost 35 now, I have had a few flashes of religious enlightenment, and a few rather gray periods when I felt that the practitioners around me were clouding the words I was supposed to hear, to the point that what did make it through the din was simply a rote recital of meaningless words and a commitment of my time I could spend better elsewhere. There seems to be no more galvanizing socially threatening subject than ones religion, and while I cannot and will not claim any great persecution, I can identify with a minority type mentality that if you do not follow the flock in the area, you are either on outsider, a person to be made uncomfortable through the guise of being witnessed to, or a freak. It is hard to make someone who is totally devoted to their religion realize that while you do not...