tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923191003698738067.post3900208558774871590..comments2022-10-29T14:44:52.395-06:00Comments on HeIsSailing: Conversions and De-conversions - Losing the fire, the spirit and innocenceHeIsSailinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154368305822276669noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923191003698738067.post-37215506341453309742012-02-04T12:43:14.412-07:002012-02-04T12:43:14.412-07:00Frogs! Eww! LOL!Frogs! Eww! LOL!... Zoe ~http://secularwings.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923191003698738067.post-21493424405849644992012-01-13T06:16:55.781-07:002012-01-13T06:16:55.781-07:00Hendy,
It seems to me that young children believe...Hendy,<br /><br />It seems to me that young children believe what parents say, but then are also influenced by the parent's actions. If you have read my earlier entries, I wrote how my parents did not have a strong religious tradition when they grew up, and mom converted when I was 5 or 6. Maybe a little older. Anyway I believed at the same time she converted because... she was mom! It was later when I saw their hypocritical actions that I first began to doubt.<br /><br />DoOrDoNot, glad you enjoyed the movies. Marjoe especially brought back a lot of memories for me! Oh yes, I remember Poplar Bluff! And yes I found the food very strange, even the fried catfish and hushpuppies. Compared to New Mexico, especially the Rio Grande Valley where everything is served with a healthy portion of green or red chile, either roasted or as a sauce, I found food in Missouri to be very bland. I remember once when mom tried to dry red chile pods in the sun in Missouri the way she did in New Mexico - it was so humid that they did not dry - they just rotted. We ate everything with fresh corn tortillas, and back then nobody in Missouri had even heard of a tortilla. Instead everything was with bread, be it with biscuits and cream gravy or chicken and dumpling stew. Very heavy food, but very bland to me. To this day, whenever I travel to the midwest on business travel, I have to bring a large bottle of tabasco sauce to liven the hotel breakfast up a bit! The one food I did learn to enjoy was frogs. I sometimes went 'frog gigging' out at a pond on a farm I knew of. Go out about 3AM, catch giant frogs, bring them back home and cook the legs for breakfast. YUM!<br /><br />Thanks for reading!HeIsSailinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09154368305822276669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923191003698738067.post-69381736064265300072012-01-09T23:08:26.455-07:002012-01-09T23:08:26.455-07:00Thanks for the documentary recommendations you mad...Thanks for the documentary recommendations you made on an earlier post. I've watched Marjoe and will get to Jesus Camp when it arrives from Netflix. I actually found Marjoe on both Netflix and youtube. Facinating! And disturbing. <br /><br />I share a common history with you in terms of geography. Until I was 10, I also lived in southeast Missouri and then we moved to the st. Louis area. I came from Poplar Bluff, which we thought was a big city compared to the little farming communities surrounding us. Not exactly a diverse, culturally rich environment, is it? I remember very few Catholic churches there, but lots of Baptist ones, and of course, my denomination, the church of Christ. It's interesting your perspective on the "strange food" of Missouri, given that it is my "normal". Did you learn to eat fried catfish and hushpuppies there?DoOrDoNothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15775977854913362396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923191003698738067.post-72557057426063171212012-01-09T15:37:14.148-07:002012-01-09T15:37:14.148-07:00I only skimmed this so far, but just wanted to add...I only skimmed this so far, but just wanted to add that my parents did not indoctrinate (or even teach me) that any particular religion was correct. I've wondered how much this has to do with my openness to other "truths" in my searching.<br /><br />This is a big area of concern with my daughters, ages 1 and 3. Do we really understand the implications of teaching them at a young age that "X is right" or "Y is the only way" or that "Z is real"? How much do we understand the ability to critically question later in life? Given that most members of a religion keep that same religion for the duration of life, I'd say that the childhood environment is huge!<br /><br />Thanks for writing this.jwhendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03615608336736450543noreply@blogger.com