Agnostic
I am offcially agnostic. My questions come not from whether God exists, though while I am at it I might as well question that. My questions come from beginning to understand how pompous it is for any human to claim they know absolute truth. I am learning about both the nature of finitude and the social creation of meaning. What has primarily made me step back from my faith is the idea that humans create meaning, individually and collectively, and that humans are unable to give a boundary to the infinite.
Christianity then comes under some hard analysis when it boxes in the infinite and claims that meaning is revealed. It produces a human mind that is closed to truth rather than free to be humble and accept the reality of being a finite being who is unable to say for certainty anything beyond a finite realm. Three finite areas which constantly get idolized as being infinite are the Church, the Bible and prayer.
Christianity then comes under some hard analysis when it boxes in the infinite and claims that meaning is revealed. It produces a human mind that is closed to truth rather than free to be humble and accept the reality of being a finite being who is unable to say for certainty anything beyond a finite realm. Three finite areas which constantly get idolized as being infinite are the Church, the Bible and prayer.
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