Recovering Evangelicals #2 Plato’s Cave: Luke’s story – Deconstruction
Luke describes the first half of his journey in which three things kept eroding his Christian faith to the point that it finally became too hard to hang on to it.
The first of those three eroding influences was science: a Fundamentalist world view that forced a six thousand year time-line on the origin of the universe, of the world, and of humans, just became too difficult to embrace.
Adding to that was a growing discomfort when he read certain stories in the Bible — especially in the Old Testament — that just had too much slaughter of innocents, offensive laws that dealt with the “proper” treatment of slaves, women, and children, and values which just didn’t feel right from a 21st century Western perspective.
Finally, encounters with believers of other faiths who I had been taught to demonize and see as “all going to hell,” but who I came to see were genuinely good people trying to understand God from the perspective they grew up with.
Something had to give. Either I continue to close my eyes to those problems and compartmentalize my belief, or give it up. Or maybe there was another solution? … maybe I could reconfigure or reconstruct it (see next episode).
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