I, too, am post-modernists and zero on fundalmentalists. Go figure! My worldview has changed a bit over the last year, I think it is because I look at literature differently. I see the subtext and from that I am changing. Re-reading Oliver Twist, I now look at the characters and who they represent and wonder why it had to be that way and even do the same in postmodern literature. So, I guess I am still, at my ripe old age, changing or my world view is. The boogey man can no longer just be the antagonist in the story, he or she must represent something and I search for those represented and ponder why. All of this ponderering leads to research and through research, I find the truth and it is that truth that changes my world view. My very fundalmentalist son told me last night, "Mom you're not the same as you were when I was a kid." I said, "Nope, I now know better." Not that I was ever a fundalmentalist. I always searched for the truth in the Bible. It is that I am now not afraid to point out the truth and that comes from gaining knowledge and having confidence. Knowledge gives us the truth and the truth does set us free.
I, too, am post-modernists and zero on fundalmentalists. Go figure! My worldview has changed a bit over the last year, I think it is because I look at literature differently. I see the subtext and from that I am changing. Re-reading Oliver Twist, I now look at the characters and who they represent and wonder why it had to be that way and even do the same in postmodern literature. So, I guess I am still, at my ripe old age, changing or my world view is. The boogey man can no longer just be the antagonist in the story, he or she must represent something and I search for those represented and ponder why. All of this ponderering leads to research and through research, I find the truth and it is that truth that changes my world view. My very fundalmentalist son told me last night, "Mom you're not the same as you were when I was a kid." I said, "Nope, I now know better." Not that I was ever a fundalmentalist. I always searched for the truth in the Bible. It is that I am now not afraid to point out the truth and that comes from gaining knowledge and having confidence. Knowledge gives us the truth and the truth does set us free.
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