In Reply to: Re: Any takers on this topic? posted by CB on October 06, 2006 at 23:05:03:
I respect people who are agnostic, especially coming out of the Family experience. To me being agnostic means saying on a personal level that the jury is out. I'm not agnostic when it comes to faith in God but the jury is out re: lots of other questions.
There was a time shortly after I left when I seriously questioned my faith. Not my faith in Berg, because that went pretty quickly, and attending a church put me in contact with a lot of other fairly normal-thinking Christians so that helped me to realize the very abnormal aspects of my faith. I mean, whether a person ever continues going to church or not, I think it's helpful after exiting the cult to mingle with all kinds of other "normal" Christians just because of the normalizing effect it has. I'm concerned when I see people who've been out 20 years but still believe in the Law of Love and Abrahim spirit helpers, and won't have a thing to do with other "churchy" Christians.
I'm not heavy into attending church any more, though I think it was helpful to me to be quite involved at one time.
About music, I like light rock, Simon & Garfunkle (for the nostalgic value), Enya, a bit of classical.
I like cats, dogs (big ones mainly) and children.
I'm a blue jeans and T-shirt kind of guy. I'd wear my hair in a pony-tail if my wife let me, but she won't so I keep it cut short. No muss no fuss.