Having stated what my beliefs are, there are two questions that I should then be able to answer.
One is “why?” Why do I believe? I won’t try and answer this one today.
The second is “so what?” In other words what are the consequences of this belief? I shall now begin to investigate this question.
Popular culture would have us believe that our religious beliefs should be private; not just in thought but also in observance. To submit to this cultural norm however would implicate me as a hypocrite for I would be impersonating someone without belief.
Hypocrisy is rampant in popular culture and some day I will reflect on it to a greater extent; but today I just want to highlight that if my religious beliefs uphold hypocrisy as a vice (which they do), then covering my religious beliefs in a shroud of privacy is not possible without subsequently diminishing those beliefs.
Heaven forbid! For when I diminish my beliefs, I am diminishing the work of Christ in my life.
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