THIS "GOD IS SORT OF A SPIRIT" THING MYSTIFIES ME | 2005-06-13
As I have said more times than you probably wanted to hear, I understand hard-core Catholics, Calvinists, Bible literalists and atheists. In the conservative movement, the Randian Objectivists made atheism a sine qua non of belonging to their group while the Sharon Statement required with equal rigidity that one had to believe in God in some form to belong to the Young Americans for Freedom.
These were the two groups I mostly worked with in college.
In Washington rock-hard Catholics, Calvinists, Bible literalists and some atheists, all of whom considered the other positions intolerable and said so, were my regular allies.
I am about 99% atheist and 1% Christian. For me it's one or the other.
The one position I truly find alien is wishy-washy religion.
If you believe in salvation, there is not a lot of room for a wiggle. I am completely mystified by a "sort of" God.
I guess I was just not born to be moderate ANYTHING.
They are certainly free to practice whatever this is. I will defend their right to do it, but I refuse to try to understand it.