![]() ![]() She was right, in a way: her specific group had nothing to do with that mess. Then I asked her the questions about homosexuality and she was defensive. ![]() “People have to experience hardship to know anything,” she said. “Would you say people have to experience hardship to know true faith?” My faith is strengthened and God gets me through it.” “So when you face hardship do you turn closer to God?” I asked. “The people in my church offered me such a wealth of love and support, and I took that as God’s way of helping me through it.” How could a loving God inflict such inexorable pain? But if you were to turn away from, rather than embrace God at a time like that…you’d start down a sad, erring path.” You can be convinced of the world’s cruelty. “You could’ve been like ‘f**k it,’” I interjected. “It was in third grade, my father died of cancer. ![]() That doesn’t fly with me, not on my campus. A leader of its national chapter incited major waves of anti-homosexuality in Africa during a missionary trip. She was sure of herself which was important because I was skeptical of her – as I am of all organized religion, with its violent factions, bigoted and ignorant factions, its popularity predicated on death and self-superiority, especially in this case, as the tip I got that made me want to write the article told me this group was actively against the LGBTQ community. “When was it that you decided you would be a person of faith? Was it even a conscious decision?” I asked her. We were in the Student Union, sitting at a small, two-person table on the second floor, overlooking the scores of peers waiting in line for food below. I was interviewing a leader of a faith group at school for The Daily Campus. Sten’s conversation with a leader of a faith group at UConn about a recent event quickly divulged many other topics. ![]()
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