Lincoln and religion

[Dr. Todd Descendant]

(11-18-2012 08:46 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Dr. Todd,

To be honest, I can't say that it does in my case. All my skepticism points to is that I find religion and faith to be irrelevant in my life. In my experience I would be hard pressed to think of something outside that realm that my lack of faith has informed. However, I do think that to those who have faith, it certainly is possible, and maybe even probable, that it could. I grew up in an evangelical church where everything, and I mean everything, was seen through the prism of God.

By the way, if I didn't say it earlier, welcome to the board.

Best
Rob

Thanks for the welcome Rob. I guess what I was shooting for was that while my thinking would involve a Christian paradigm, yours would most likely be Humanist in nature. I strive to take action based on serving God BY serving man. HOW you and I may go about doing that may be very similiar.

I've always told my adult Bible study attendees that the problem with churches (vs THE Church), is that there are people in them. You used the phrase, "seen through the prism of God". Actually, that's not a bad deal if we remember that the Bible says, "God is love". We humans just seem to screw that up...sigh