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Title   : A note about religion and philosophy.
Date    : 12 June 2005
Updated : 05 August 2009
Author  : Stian Skjæveland
Thanks  : Thanks to Kjetil Nes for some help with this document.

I am a christian, by which I mean that I belive in God, Jesus Christ 
and The Holy Ghost. I pray to God, and I also belive that what's 
written in The Holy Bible is - in many senses - true.

As you may noticed; I wrote "in many senses". That's what I will try to 
explain a bit here.

There should be no doubt that I am a christian. Still I admit that in 
many periods of my life, I find it very hard to believe in the given 
dogmas. I'm a (small) philosopher, and have many concerns with and 
critiques of a lot of conventional christian morals, etc. That 
- in some senses - makes me an agnostic. I'm also a very depressed (1) 
human being, thus often gives me a quite nihilistic point of view.

I don't think any of this makes me a "less of a christian" human being, 
but it may make me an unconventional christian human being: an agnostic 
nihilistic non-charismatic non-fundamentalistic christian human being. 
Maybe, after all, that's not as unconventional as I think.

References:
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1) See doc/biography.txt for more information on this subject.

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