re tuff to be a christian someone writing anonymously asks would you have become a christian if you had not been indoctrinated by your parents you probably never learned about any other religion to make a comparative study and therefore i claim you are brain washed i did become a christian without having been indoctrinated by my parents and having studied buddhism fairly carefully and other religions to a lesser degree i made a decision to accept the truth claims of christianity after having given it a lot of thought i have to point out that the process was not purely a cold rational one there was a powerful experiential element as well also my calvinist should rest assured that i don t lay any of the responsibility for the outcome my conversion on anyone but god it took me years and years for this all to happen because i had many of the objections that this poster puts forward i grew up in the shadow of generic authoritarian conservative denomination and i knew that that wasn t a way of life that i could adopt but i gradually learned not to tar all of christianity with the same brush and realized quite suddenly one cold winter night that i accepted what i had heretofore rejected i am quite certain that i was not brain washed bill hovingh
