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Bert Campolo, The Evangelical Scion Who Stopped Believing
For most of his life, Campolo had gone from success to success. His father, Tony, was one of the most important evangelical Christian preachers of the last 50 years, a prolific author and an erstwhile spiritual adviser to Bill Clinton. The younger Campolo had developed a reputation of his own, running successful inner-city missions in Philadelphia and Ohio and traveling widely as a guest preacher...For Campolo, admitting that he had totally lost his faith was oddly comforting...
Frank Schaeffer, son of the deranged FRANCIS SCAHFFER also rejected 90% of what his father taught..I really think it has something to do with being your own person..that and it sure makes Proverbs 22:6 look bad..
Puts me in mind of Rachael Slick, daughter of Matt "The Oil" Slick, founder of CARM, a Christian apologetics site.
She speaks of freeing herself from her father's narrow, bigoted, fundamentalist mind-think. And his penchant for whipping his children when they displeased him, among other things.
Bert Campolo, The Evangelical Scion Who Stopped Believing
For most of his life, Campolo had gone from success to success. His father, Tony, was one of the most important evangelical Christian preachers of the last 50 years, a prolific author and an erstwhile spiritual adviser to Bill Clinton. The younger Campolo had developed a reputation of his own, running successful inner-city missions in Philadelphia and Ohio and traveling widely as a guest preacher...For Campolo, admitting that he had totally lost his faith was oddly comforting...
Nothing of any real note here. Many switch Religions.
Though bashing your head into a tree at 40 MPH is quite a unique catalyst...and it sure makes for an interesting story.
OTOH...it seems quite appropriate to me that severe head trauma would coincide with finding the Atheism Religion to be reasonable.
Yeah...that would figure. Poor guy went from the frying pan into the fire.
Sound like the son of the preacher spiritual authority as a Christian was weak or non existent , so lying spirits of this world would have their spiritual authority when believer don`t fight them off ........
Nothing of any real note here. Many switch Religions.
Though bashing your head into a tree at 40 MPH is quite a unique catalyst...and it sure makes for an interesting story.
OTOH...it seems quite appropriate to me that severe head trauma would coincide with finding the Atheism Religion to be reasonable.
Yeah...that would figure. Poor guy went from the frying pan into the fire.
Either that or he was Angry at God. Believers always look for anything other than coming to the senses. And winders -up can use the same argument just to try to irritate the atheists.
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Originally Posted by hljc
Sound like the son of the preacher spiritual authority as a Christian was weak or non existent , so lying spirits of this world would have their spiritual authority when believer don`t fight them off ........
On the contrary, it takes considerable spiritual strength to question religion, its authority, teachings threats and promises. And probably one of the hardest to question is 'Satan is misleading you', but once you ask why a loving god would allow 'lying spirits' to do that, unless he wants people to be misled, you realize what a self -serving excuse that is to explain why people can no longer believe what is unbelievable.
Either that or he was Angry at God. Believers always look for anything other than coming to the senses.
Amazingly enough non believers believe they know what believers believe.......
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