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I’m a Christian Only Because My Parents Were
Therefore, Christianity can’t be true (or, so I’m told)
I’m a Christian. Anyone who follows my writing regularly knows this. If you don’t follow my writing, it won’t take you long to figure it out.
Here’s what you may not know…
I’m a Christian only because my parents were.
Yep, that’s right. What’s more, they were Christians because their parents were. And on it goes — all the way back to the beginning.
You see, we don’t have any free will ourselves. We just imbibe what our parents teach us, and absorb the cultural influences of the environment in which they raised us — and that’s that.
Our beliefs are fixed. They never change.
And as for being right? That’s not even a thing. Truth doesn’t exist — at least not in any absolute, universal sense. Everyone has their own truth, and all truths are equal.
Except, of course, for the statement that truth is relative. That one’s absolutely true. It’s the one unassailable fact in the universe. But any other truth claim? Totally subjective.
Got it?
Okay, where were we?
Ah, yes — Christianity.
