Post by anna on May 17, 2010 1:55:10 GMT -5
Hi, my name is Anna, I'm 24 years old, from Germany.
I'm engaged to be married next year, I don't have children yet.
I was raised agnostic, but have always been a liberal left-wing christian.
I study theology and history to become a teacher (religious education is taught in public school in Germany). I haven't suffered religious abuse, but I do have problems with my
church over many of my liberal ideas.
I'm an emotional incest survivor (this situation had nothing to do with my parents' faith or lack thereof!)
I came to NLQ via the Under Much Grace blog and have been fascinated and shocked with everybody's stories. I have no real life experience with QF per se, but I do have fights with very conservative, fundamentalist, patriarchal (in the sense that they don't believe I should be studying, that their wives are SAH moms, that they think the father is the head of the family and the wife must submit to him) fellow students. I feel like our moderately conservative faculty is being taken over by the fundis.
Most of my friends are atheist or agnostic and so are my in-laws. My fiance is a theravada buddhist, so I get to hear quite a few stories about why people have left church, how they have been hurt by pastors/priests etc. . I have big issues with church myself, I wanted to be a pastor and couldn't because of my fiance's faith, so I feel kicked out and unwanted and unseen for who I am.
I joined the board mainly to express my admiration for you ladies and my good wishes for your future. Please tell me if I shouldn't be posting because I have not experienced spiritual abuse.
I'm engaged to be married next year, I don't have children yet.
I was raised agnostic, but have always been a liberal left-wing christian.
I study theology and history to become a teacher (religious education is taught in public school in Germany). I haven't suffered religious abuse, but I do have problems with my
church over many of my liberal ideas.
I'm an emotional incest survivor (this situation had nothing to do with my parents' faith or lack thereof!)
I came to NLQ via the Under Much Grace blog and have been fascinated and shocked with everybody's stories. I have no real life experience with QF per se, but I do have fights with very conservative, fundamentalist, patriarchal (in the sense that they don't believe I should be studying, that their wives are SAH moms, that they think the father is the head of the family and the wife must submit to him) fellow students. I feel like our moderately conservative faculty is being taken over by the fundis.
Most of my friends are atheist or agnostic and so are my in-laws. My fiance is a theravada buddhist, so I get to hear quite a few stories about why people have left church, how they have been hurt by pastors/priests etc. . I have big issues with church myself, I wanted to be a pastor and couldn't because of my fiance's faith, so I feel kicked out and unwanted and unseen for who I am.
I joined the board mainly to express my admiration for you ladies and my good wishes for your future. Please tell me if I shouldn't be posting because I have not experienced spiritual abuse.
But please, join in the conversation! It's always nice to have a different perspective. 