I like to think that I have some insights into the evangelical portion of the VRWC, simply because, for the first 12 years of my adult life, I was a born-again Christian. It was something I drifted into at a time when I had no real anchor or direction in my personal or professional life, and I stayed with it until it stopped helping me make sense of the world--and when I started to ask myself a disturbing question: if God only wanted us to believe, why did He/She/It/They give us the ability to think? So I started to trust myself to make decisions--and I've never regretted it, nor do I feel that I'm less of a believer in God for it. As I've told several people, it's easier to hold onto God's hand when you use a looser grip--the kind that Fundamentalists, who map out God's will for everything (including taking out the garbage), don't approve of having.
In my experience, you either are born into being born-again, or (as I did) you drift into it. I'm glad to see, in this case, that you can be born into it, leave it, and find as I did that there is life after being born-again. Never forget: not all Fundamentalists are Christians--and not all Christians are Fundamentalists.
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