Truth or Christianity, Which Do You Prefer

Back when I was young, in the culture in which I was raised - America - people who were "Christian" were pretty much either Catholic or Protestant. There was no "Fundamentalist Christianity" yet.

My parents were Protestant so we as a family bounced between the Congregational Church and the Methodist one.

As a teen, I opted out and became an atheist.

Atheist!

As a young adult, when I started using LSD, atheism became a problem for me. Obviously, there was something much larger than the atheist mind.

When I went looking, there was something new in town - "Fundamentalist Christianity" - and I was drawn in. I was baptized the real way and joined the new Fundamentalist church in town. I was "born again".

Fundamentalist Christianity didn't survive. I almost think it was Jimmy Carter who inadvertently did the "born again" movement in. As I recall, he claimed to be born again, and conservative Christians just couldn't stomach it.

That movement away from "fundamentalist" and "born again" evolved into "evangelical" leaving me out in the cold, wondering.

Eventually I was kicked out of the "body of Christ" - something that I know they did to me despite assurances that it could never happen to a "born again" Christian.

Truth itself seemed to be the issue for me. Fundamentalist Christianity and the "born again" movement seemed to be saying that the only truth in the world was what could be found in the Bible but only if it was revealed by the "Holy Spirit" through faith.

Despite all the rock-solid fundamentals, it all seemed wishy-washy to me. I tried. I even attended a small fundamentalist Bible college for a semester, but that experience did me in. What I was expected to believe and profess eventually crushed my faith.

Now it's truth - truth itself - that matters most to me, not the limited religious dogmatic Biblical truth but truth. Recently I have discovered that I am not alone. There is a new truth movement rising from Christianity and it doesn't demand membership. I have not attended church since I was evicted from the body, but I have yet to find a church that can accept this new notion of "truth".

What I can do, though, is resonate with this:

Contradictions in modern Christianity exposed: A journey from evangelicalism to spiritual awakening