The Cellar - View Single Post - 6/26: Homeschooling and animal skinning (thanks Slithy_Tove)

ndetroit · 06-29-2001, 11:47 AM

Hmmm... I'm by no means a 'religion expert', but I recall reading something similar to what Tony was talking about..

CS Lewis once wrote something like: "...All young people must, at some point in their life, cast off the cloak of their parents religion, leave the church, and come back to it for their own reasons"...

Obviously he was speaking figuratively (and I'm paraphrasing), but he is quite a well respected Christian author and philosopher, and seemed to suggest that if you want to develop a 'true belief' or 'faith', then just relying on what you were taught while growing up just does not cut it.
I guess this is your 'third type' of person...

06-29-2001, 11:47 AM	#27
ndetroit Master Locutor Join Date: May 2001 Location: vancouver Posts: 158	Hmmm... I'm by no means a 'religion expert', but I recall reading something similar to what Tony was talking about.. CS Lewis once wrote something like: "...All young people must, at some point in their life, cast off the cloak of their parents religion, leave the church, and come back to it for their own reasons"... Obviously he was speaking figuratively (and I'm paraphrasing), but he is quite a well respected Christian author and philosopher, and seemed to suggest that if you want to develop a 'true belief' or 'faith', then just relying on what you were taught while growing up just does not cut it. I guess this is your 'third type' of person...