Heretics

Meant to tell about this before, but stuff got in the way. This weekend, I heard part of a really interesting episode of This American Life, about a heretic. You can read about it here and listen to it by clicking on the speaker link on the page. It was really interesting, because it was an interview about a man who had been an evangelical, pentecostal minister who stopped believing in hell. And he also started believing that you didn't have to believe in Jesus to be saved.

I'm not sure that I agree with all his ideas. I don't believe that humans are sinful by nature or that Jesus was the Son of God, or even that his death "saved the sins of the world." I believe in the basic goodness of people. I believe that we create our own heaven or hell based on our actions. But it was really cool to hear about someone switching from believing so deeply in evangelical Christianity to believing in universal salvation and not believing in hell.

I only heard parts of it on the radio, so I'm listening to a podcast of it right now. It's hard to write and listen at the same time. So I'll let you read/listen to it yourself at your leisure. :)