Recent content by Tryne Luciano

An articulate response. Emotion and intuition have their place and their value, I would agree. But if that's all you've got, I suspect you're in deep trouble indeed. Religion involves a great deal of intuition, blind faith, and subjectivity. Those qualities involve some maneuvering in the...

Do we want to find context for happiness and freedom and meaning (all of which are subjective things by their very nature) without examining the validity or rationality of the venues where they are achieved? Of course not. I am not going to sit in a service of the Scientologists and not...

The difference is that in insular sects and cults, like the Christadelphians, the members often fail to be socialized to an extent where they can survive competently on the outside if they leave the group. This is in some ways, consciously or unconsciously, intentional, and thus unfortunate and...

If you have been performing baptisms, you are hardly an unbiased party. "Love and compassion," according to you, characterizes this group, along with your somewhat contradictory expression that they can be described as a "no nonsense group." "Love and compassion" were not what I encountered in...

I occasionally attend a large local church, but it is primarily to avail myself of cultural and social events there. I would not describe myself as an atheist, but instead as being somewhere between an atheist and an agnostic. I think it unlikely there is any God, but I haven't ruled it out...

Dream, they were showing you lots of attention and kindness to get you into the fold. After you're in, all of that usually dissipates. Yes, there are good people in Christadelphianism. I met some. There are also more than an ordinary sect's share of destructive and malevolent people, in my...

Let me clarify one thing further. In order not to be "owned" by this group for the rest of my lifetime (or, rather, to keep them out of my head), I had to lose all of my family members and my closest friends. But that is an indictment of this little cult, not of me. I had to shut them all out...

In response to the notion that we are "always a member of a group like the Christadelphians, and always owned by it." ...... Yes and no. We each carry our history with us. But that history doesn't have to own us. They still "owned" me for ten or fifteen years after I left their religion...

For information on whether or not Christadelphianism is a "cult," enter the words "Christadelphian Cult" in your search engine, and then carefully follow along the internet trails that present themselves to you. Digest the information carefully, and then come to your own conclusions. In my own...