Last night Amy and I took Rebecca to a dinner with some people from the Unitarian Universalist church we (without Rebecca) used to attend.
Part of the discussion was started by someone who doesn't like those people who claim to know the truth and push it down other peoples' throats.
My response: What we believe does not change what is true; the truth is true whether we believe it or not. And if one is dedicated to a search for truth, it seems only logical to me that one should consider the possibility of finding it.
And finally, one reflection on my spiritual journey, why I became a Christian rather than something else: When I rejected atheism, I had many choices to consider, but Christianity offered one thing many other religions, (those presenting a pantheistic or deist viewpoint - which is what most UUs who are not outright atheists believe), don't offer: A chance to not only believe in God, but in a God who believes in me, who even considers and thinks about me.
Reminds me of the sign outside a UU church I pass by regularly on my rounds: "Our passion is the search for truth." And I can't help thinking every time that if they knew the One whose passion for them drove him to the cross, then they wouldn't need to be searching any more. They'd have found Truth.
Posted by: Lee Anne Millinger at March 23, 2004 10:04 AM