Comments on: Faking church, faking faith

By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 04:54:50 +0000

Also, there's the pressure in some church circles TO fake it because if you're real, by definition you won't be good enough. Sometimes the only way to fit in, the only way to avoid lectures on "trusting God", the only way to function in church IS to fake it.

Hence my current exodus away from church and my struggle with my own tendency to "fake it."

Heidi

By: Patrick O'Hannigan

Patrick O'Hannigan — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:45:53 +0000

I don't know if Dan Schaeffer gets into this angle, but "faking Church," though not as desirable as a genuine embrace of church, may nevertheless be a net positive, in the same way that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. At least the fakery is an implicit acknowledgement of worth. Unless one is a psychopath, one doesn't fake what one doesn't care about.

By: Wayne Leman

Wayne Leman — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:02:21 +0000

Well written, Chuck. Thanks for using your computer to post good things like this, and thanks for helping others with computer issues. Viva Mexico, viva ILV :-)

By: Juliet

Juliet — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:56:25 +0000

I think we are all victims of faking it somtimes.