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mari4212It must be something about it being September, and the time I'd normally be heading off to school and having some form of religion class. Because I've been finding myself getting into more and more discussions of religion and theology in the past few weeks, especially at school.
Part of it also probably is my Asian Theory class. We all know each other pretty well, have all bonded over a lot, and we're a rather distractable lot that tends to go off on random tangents at the drop of a hat. In the past two weeks, it's led to discussions of Gnosticism, biblical stances on homosexuality (that led into a near-hour-long rant on my part about how we cannot say that the Bible actively condemns homosexuality as we understand it today, which apparently made one member of my class rather happy, as she's been dealing with being not straight and her entire support structure being members of a rather fundamentalist Christian denomination,) and yesterday, my personal stance on Atonement theology. Said personal stance being articulated for the first time on the spot during the discussion. Our teacher likes to go Socratic in part while she's teaching, and will prod you until she thinks you've verbalized all your thought processes on an opinion. Of course, I don't exactly mind this, as I think part of being an intellectually honest member of a faith is working through issues and understanding where you come from, theologically. Some of the Atonement theories I've heard end up with God being some form of divine child abuser, and if I thought those were accurate, I would not be able to call myself a Christian, because that God wouldn't be a God worth following.
And apparently H_E is closing down, with this being the last term it'll be open. My interest in H_E had been waning for the past bit, and I finally left via inactivity this past term, but considering how many people I love are rejoining the comm, I'm probably going to come back as well. So much of my lj experience has come out of there, I sort of want to see it through to the end now.
Part of it also probably is my Asian Theory class. We all know each other pretty well, have all bonded over a lot, and we're a rather distractable lot that tends to go off on random tangents at the drop of a hat. In the past two weeks, it's led to discussions of Gnosticism, biblical stances on homosexuality (that led into a near-hour-long rant on my part about how we cannot say that the Bible actively condemns homosexuality as we understand it today, which apparently made one member of my class rather happy, as she's been dealing with being not straight and her entire support structure being members of a rather fundamentalist Christian denomination,) and yesterday, my personal stance on Atonement theology. Said personal stance being articulated for the first time on the spot during the discussion. Our teacher likes to go Socratic in part while she's teaching, and will prod you until she thinks you've verbalized all your thought processes on an opinion. Of course, I don't exactly mind this, as I think part of being an intellectually honest member of a faith is working through issues and understanding where you come from, theologically. Some of the Atonement theories I've heard end up with God being some form of divine child abuser, and if I thought those were accurate, I would not be able to call myself a Christian, because that God wouldn't be a God worth following.
And apparently H_E is closing down, with this being the last term it'll be open. My interest in H_E had been waning for the past bit, and I finally left via inactivity this past term, but considering how many people I love are rejoining the comm, I'm probably going to come back as well. So much of my lj experience has come out of there, I sort of want to see it through to the end now.
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Date: 2009-09-18 12:52 am (UTC)