David Young
Member
I was a Christian when I started studying for my theology degree at the age of nineteen. By the time I graduated, at the age of twenty-two, I had lost my faith and become an agnostic. I became an atheist around the age of twenty-three.
One detail I noticed was that even Christians who were intelligent enough to become undergraduates still resorted to the "Wait until you are older/until you are my age before trying to understand that" line of argument.
Let us suppose that I had remained a Christian all these years. I am now fifty. At what stage, if any, would I have stopped hearing other Christians tell me to wait until I am older whenever I disagreed with them about what something in the Bible means, what Christian ethics may or may not involve or anything else related to Christianity?
Or should I wait until I am older before asking this question?
One detail I noticed was that even Christians who were intelligent enough to become undergraduates still resorted to the "Wait until you are older/until you are my age before trying to understand that" line of argument.
Let us suppose that I had remained a Christian all these years. I am now fifty. At what stage, if any, would I have stopped hearing other Christians tell me to wait until I am older whenever I disagreed with them about what something in the Bible means, what Christian ethics may or may not involve or anything else related to Christianity?
Or should I wait until I am older before asking this question?