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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

 

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. 

 

-- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) French writer & philosopher

It is invariably a shock to evangelical Christians to hear or read about someone who has turned his back on the "faith, which was once delivered unto the saints." The quick justification from most believers of such an announced occurrence will be to piously point out that anyone who turns away from Christ was never a real believer to begin with. Or as an insider might say it, "He was never born again."

Read the rest at https://articles.exchristian.net/2002/04/sabbatical-or-my-anti-testimony.php.