Returning to religious conversations in a new way
I've been toying with the notion of returning to a church at some point in the future for quite a long time now. Until very recently, every time I considered it, a sense of dread started to wash over me when I would mentally walk through the likely experience and the conversations I'll have with the people I meet. Ultimately, "beliefs" would come up and I'd either have to keep my mouth shut or risk offending someone by expressing my heresy. I know, I know. Some of my atheist friends are already asking themselves "Why in the hell would he do such a thing?" The forms of Christianity I've been involved with through my life have centered on "beliefs". Whether they call it this or not, it's orthodoxy. Orthodoxy (from Greek orthos ("right", "true", "straight") + doxa ("opinion" or "belief", related to dokein , "to think"), [1] ) is adherence to accepted norms, more specif