If you have liberal parents, getting religion is the only way to go, says Kira Cochrane
‘When I look back, I suppose that Ben’s conversion to Christianity was quite gradual really, but he’s definitely fallen hook, line and sinker now,” says Ellen Parker, a teacher from Surrey and a lifelong agnostic. Her son Ben is in his mid-twenties and has been a devout evangelical Christian for a few years. It is a situation about which Parker feels deeply ambivalent.
“On the one hand,” she says, “he was quite aimless when he joined the church and I can see that it’s given him a real sense of purpose: he went from being someone who had literally never read a book for pleasure, to studying the Bible for hours each day. But it also makes me sad because none of the rest of the family shares his beliefs and it excludes us from a massive part of his life. Sometimes I think that the gulf between the values of his church and my own liberal values might be impossible to bridge.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...125019,00.html
Oh how rebelious youth can be, the world turns in the old ways