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Julie Burchill: Im a teen atheist turned Christian tryer

Posted by Margaret on Sunday, Aug 17, 2008

First of all, let me tell you what this isn’t. It’s not some “I-was-lost-and-now-I’m-found” sob story. These days, many people reach out to faith “to find peace”. I had too much peace in my life already. In faith, I was looking to be troubled – on behalf of other people. Every film and pop starlet, trawling after a reason to exist, says, “I’m not religious – but I am spiritual”. I don’t have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious. I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I’m a Christian Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist. But over the past two decades, almost without me knowing it, the Christian part has become the most important.

Julie Burchill: I’m a teen atheist turned Christian tryer | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Read about Julie in Spike magazine – I always thought she was bonkers.

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