Having grown up in the church and seeing all it;s inner workings, are you still a good church going person, or do you find your experience left you jaded about organized religion?
My Dad was a Minister while I was growing up and personally, I now have no use for organized religion....
Ah, my dear fellow, what you say is a longstanding pattern that crosses cultural mores and societal traditions. Do you realize Nietzsche was the son of a pastor? And Khrushchev was constantly at the top of his class in memorizing Bible verses.
During my ministry among jr high schoolers, I found the most disaffected were often the PKs. I asked them questions and they constantly answered correctly about history, Bible stories lessons, the life of Jesus, theological problems, and the like. I asked many, why do you have no joy. And always the response was, "I just don't care".
As a PK myself, I am quite disaffected by the inconsistencies, hipocrisy, backstabbing, self-righteousness, dysfunction, truth effacement, reality contortion, and life negation that occurs at times within the body of believers. I am jaded insofar as a very spiky and rough stone is jaded and smoothed over time until the rough edges fade away and there is a quiet meekness left. I am also cynical and appreciative of the weakness of human beings and their frailty. And I also go to church.
So in answer to your question: "yes, yes".
But I have Cheers ! 🙂, so it might be different for others.
