{"id":404,"date":"2006-01-24T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T19:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/01\/24\/id-never-join-the-church-its-a-good-thing-i-was-born-into-it\/"},"modified":"2006-01-24T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T19:05:02","slug":"id-never-join-the-church-its-a-good-thing-i-was-born-into-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/01\/24\/id-never-join-the-church-its-a-good-thing-i-was-born-into-it\/","title":{"rendered":"“I’d never join the church … it’s a good thing I was born into it.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have heard this same curious phrase several times over the last two weeks.<\/p>\n
I’m wondering how many people also feel like they wouldn’t be a member of an organized religion if they hadn’t been born into one.<\/p>\n
I’m not a practising anything<\/strong> so when I hear statements like the above I have to ask myself, “If you wouldn’t be a convert, then why are you still a member?”<\/p>\n
So if you couldn’t see yourself converting … why are<\/strong> you still a member?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"