Andrew Furst
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Barbara O'Brien:
Hey, I liked your Bio. Have you revisited Christianity (sorry haven't read your blog yet if you cover that). I'm always poking at my aversions to my "mother" religion. Curious what your experience is.
Barbara O'Brien
That depends on what you mean by "revisited." Have I seriously considered going back to Christianity as my spiritual/religious path? No. On the other hand, I remain interested in Christianity in a more academic sense, trying to understand how it developed as it did and why so much of it today seems to have gone off the rails.
This is something I wrote about at great length in my book, Rethinking Religion. I have a deep respect for Christianity in its more non-literalist, non-fundamentalist forms, and I hope that some of what I wrote might help the tradition disown the right-wing reactionary zealots who appear to dominate it today.
This is something I wrote about at great length in my book, Rethinking Religion. I have a deep respect for Christianity in its more non-literalist, non-fundamentalist forms, and I hope that some of what I wrote might help the tradition disown the right-wing reactionary zealots who appear to dominate it today.
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