I'm re-reading "Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time" by Marcus Borg, because Pastor Janet sent me a replacement for the signed copy Dad gave me, which I had lost.

I'm only just starting. He recalls childhood images of Jesus, and God, and how his early understandings began to melt away into doubt as critical thinking bootstrapped in his teens. His recollection is very similar to my own, which makes me wonder…

Do some people get stuck in the childhood understanding of Jesus and God, such that it leads to the kind of empirically false literal understanding of God as punisher, the intolerance and bigotry, and the denial of fundamentalism and conservatism in Christianity?

Carl and I have watched the full first season of Penny Dreadful, and we are hooked! I like how doubtful and introspective all the "good" characters are. Literally every character in the series has sinister stuff going on in their introspective and extroverted activity… but the "good" characters are rather tormented souls. They experience doubt. It's quite brilliant, really.