It wasn't so much discussion of doctrine as indoctrination. (sigh) Yeah. Then again, RE and Sunday School were really more about telling kids what to believe, and people don't tend to be very intellectually rigorous with kids.
But bible-studies with adults? I expect adults to know better.
but most did not encourage too much "questioning of Faith"
Possibly they considered it disruptive, since they were supposed to be "lessons". Then again, they could also have been of the school of thought (also exemplified in Reynardo's comment above) that "questions" imply doubt and dissent, rather than a quest for understanding. Dumb.
Mind you, some questions are disruptive and full of dissent; they hold at their base hostility towards the teaching. Trick questions like "Can God make something too heavy for him to lift?" or the various questions that the Pharisees asked Jesus trying to trap him.
So, yeah, for someone who is all "ask questions" I also oddly believe that there are some questions which shouldn't be asked.
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(sigh)
Yeah. Then again, RE and Sunday School were really more about telling kids what to believe, and people don't tend to be very intellectually rigorous with kids.
But bible-studies with adults? I expect adults to know better.
but most did not encourage too much "questioning of Faith"
Possibly they considered it disruptive, since they were supposed to be "lessons". Then again, they could also have been of the school of thought (also exemplified in Reynardo's comment above) that "questions" imply doubt and dissent, rather than a quest for understanding. Dumb.
Mind you, some questions are disruptive and full of dissent; they hold at their base hostility towards the teaching. Trick questions like "Can God make something too heavy for him to lift?" or the various questions that the Pharisees asked Jesus trying to trap him.
So, yeah, for someone who is all "ask questions" I also oddly believe that there are some questions which shouldn't be asked.