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Eric Meekey's avatar

God bless you for sharing this. I could no better eloquently articulate these thoughts that I've been thinking over much of my life.

Growing up in Central Arkansas and now residing in Indiana, there's not much of a change in culture I'm exposed to. My parents are Catholic by way of Maryland, my father's birthplace, and the country of the Philippines, where my mother's from.

I appear Latino, but I'm ethnically Black. Attendance at a suburban Lutheran church gives me reprieve from the racial/ethnic jockeying of the city. It's not a long drive from where I live, but the drive is still necessary to overcome geographic separation.

Growing up, the Catholic parish I attended with family was distant from the predominantly Protestant neighborhood I lived in, and it always nagged at me that we never worshipped with neighbors--ironic that I now continue that convention just to relate with the prevailing, Anglo-Saxon culture.

Individuals uniting with Christ Jesus is primary of course, as per Galatians 3:28 in the Bible (There is neither Jew nor Gentile...). Education also helps people out of this tribalist nonsense. Contrary to the opinion of this article, I think Enlightenment values continue to offer a helpful alternative to empowering individuals in the secular world, just as they did historically for those outside of the Holy Roman Empire. Out here in the West, Faith and Reason isn't mutually exclusive. Eventually more people here will come to understand that.

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Tucker Chisholm's avatar

What was the number one doctrine you found to be false in your previous protestant denomination that led you to convert to EO?

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