Are there reasons to evangelize that overcome one's own doubts as to the truth of a religion?
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2007-02-23 03:42:46 · 4 answers · asked by sain et hereaux 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you are really interested, I suggest reading "Crisis of Conscience", a book by a man who had high status in the Jehovahs Witness sect and left when he realised how wrong it was. Very good reasoning in there, and a lot of information.
2007-02-23 03:56:24 · answer #1 · answered by Tanya Pants 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not personally.
However, I did know a minister who was not an active believer. I asked him why he still did it... he said that for him, the look of joy and peace in his congregation was his spiritualism, that bringing them hope and peace brought him hope and peace. If he had left for disbelief, he would have risked hurting them and lost the very thing that fulfilled him. It was better, he found, to live his own spirituality his way and continue serving the congregation's needs.
No one ever found out that he was in actuality a deist, not a Christian most of the time he was a minister.
I miss him. :( He was one of the best people I knew.
2007-02-23 11:48:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
sounds like an opportunity to 'let go' of the religion and get spiritual without the dogma
2007-02-23 11:48:10 · answer #3 · answered by larrydoyle52 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ha! Oximoron all the way huh!
2007-02-23 11:48:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋