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08/29/2003 Entry: "InSide Out"

There's some very good stuff over at InSide Out. It's thoughtful, well-written and will repay any visits you make there. Here's a sample from 12th August:

Years ago, when my religion was threatened, or I felt like I had to defend it, I got angry. That anger was probably just a product of immaturity, of personality. As I went through school, I was introduced to liberals who were all a bunch of idiots. They were idiots because they didn't believe in Christianity, a tragedy, but obviously they didn't see the logic. I equated non-Christian with unintelligent. How could one be a liberal, I thought, they have no basis of reason? Perhaps that was true to some degree because they were peers of mine who were just as immature and unskilled as myself. Perhaps I was not fair in my thinking. And of course, there were a few who were just idiots. As I have undergone an extensive reevaluation of my personal faith, more specifically, the way my faith exists in my life and what my key tenants are, I have simultaneously (without conscious effort) turned to review fundamental conservative thinking. Just like I lumped non-Christian with liberal, I have grouped Christian and conservative into the same camp. And in one shot, I seem to let anger rip through the ranks of church congregations and massive Republican movements and ideology. But why?