From Patheos-Leaving fundamentalism is a lot like moving to a brand new (to you) area of the country.
You are going somewhere where the accents are different. Where they say soda instead of pop, and where instead of a steady jet stream that goes from west to east, the weather literally comes in any of the 4 directions.
You leave fundamentalism, so you think, but you find yourself being fundamental, well, about not being fundamental.
You have a lifetime of learned behavior and thought processes and it is as hard to get rid of them as it is to remember the call letters for your new local news station. I’ve actually made 2 significant moves in the last 3 years and the call letters I know by heart are WOOD, WZZM, and WAVY. None of which are my current TV stations. I have no idea the numerical numbers for any of my local channels, except for knowing that 29 is NBC. And yet I can still tell you that for 30 years, NBC was 16, CBS was 22, ABC was 28, FOX was 32, and the Christian station was 46 (home of Joy Junction, Circle Square, Gospel Bill, and Jimmy Swaggert).
More here-
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unfundamentalistparenting/2016/10/leaving-fundamentalism-is-like-moving-away/
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