tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588029558996383885.post5173676378758161201..comments2023-10-23T10:09:02.996-07:00Comments on Chorleiter: Spiritual House Cleaning: On the brink of AtheismSeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04561860729984232424noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588029558996383885.post-6528766837564729512010-04-14T00:15:38.439-07:002010-04-14T00:15:38.439-07:00Interesting post. I've been thinking about my ...Interesting post. I've been thinking about my own relationship with God a lot over the last few months and have come to a few conclusions:<br /><br />1. I recognize the fact that God might be nothing more than a human construct used to make us feel better. If this is true, I don't really care. I have decided that I like the idea of a God, it makes me feel better, and so I will believe in him.<br /><br />2. I feel like God has left me to navigate life on my own. This is actually a feeling I can trace back several years, even before I started to deal with my homosexuality. Church leaders talk about how sometimes we each have to experience our own personal Gethsemane. It's certainly possible that this could apply to the last several years of my life. I'm not saying I have been living some kind of nightmare, just that I haven't had a real connection with God like I used to. It's certainly frustrating, but I have just decided to plug along on my own and he'll come back whenever he wants to.El Geniohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02801064758712821345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588029558996383885.post-47018341356694456822010-04-13T18:27:47.965-07:002010-04-13T18:27:47.965-07:00Your post is all too familiar with me. I feel I h...Your post is all too familiar with me. I feel I have been forever spiritually broken by Mormonism. I'm not agnostic/atheist and find that the major classes of problems I find in Mormonism are also in other religions, Christian and non-Christian. I can't decide if I should blame Mormonism for my inability to believe and trust another religious claim, or if I should thank it for leading me to a place where I can accept the truth of God's non-existence.<br /><br />And it was definitely my loss of faith that finally allowed me to accept that I am gay. So ironic . . .<br /><br />Thanks for the post.Mister Curiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00113134172902610883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588029558996383885.post-54116090519284267202010-04-13T13:03:06.664-07:002010-04-13T13:03:06.664-07:00At this point, my spirituality has been stripped d...At this point, my spirituality has been stripped down to the point in which I hope there is a god out there, if only so that there's hope for existence after death (rotting in the ground is not appealing to me).Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02452126809752182340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588029558996383885.post-56511873929514632002010-04-13T12:45:58.047-07:002010-04-13T12:45:58.047-07:00I hope it doesn't sound patronizing for me to ...I hope it doesn't sound patronizing for me to say I've been where you are now. It's not to say I can presume to know where you'll end up. Just that I empathize with the pain and anger and disappointment.<br /><br />I had a religion professor at BYU who used to respond to my anguished questioning not by shaming me or implying that I was going down the path of heresy, but simply by encouraging me not to give up until I had found answers to my questions that fully satisfied me.<br /><br />In other words, keep on down the rabbit hole. It's probably much deeper than you think.John Gustav-Wrathallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03557940681381951271noreply@blogger.com