thread: 2005-08-05 : Going Home
On 2005-08-08, Kevin Heckman wrote:
Clinton, you capture exactly how I feel about Christianity. Only I went in the opposite direction and am a public apostate to my family and such. It sucks and is often lonely. If only I could just cross that little line, I would have this awesome relationship with my parents and many of my friends. It would be so easy—seductively easy. But for whatever reason I can't bring myself to do it. I genuinely like most deeply religious people. I admire their optimism, their sense of compassion, their conviction. But it's just not me.
Over the past ten years (it's been that long?!) since I came out of the atheistic closet to my parents, it's been a drawn-out struggle to rebuild our relationship. We both want one. But it feels like building a road around a mountain, instead of straight through it, except instead of a mountain, there's just a void. The elephant in the room that no one talks about. *sigh*
