![]() If you’ve seen the documentary “Jesus Camp,” you know a great deal about what my childhood influences believed and the way they taught me to think and react to the world. I grew up in a Christian church and school that was far outside the Christian mainstream in some respects-far enough that the word “cult” isn’t unreasonable-though it was fairly typical in others. ![]() Where did this come from? How did Sam Harris earn my loyalty? It is hard to imagine what else I could have sacrificed to help someone who has been wealthy and privileged since childhood, but if any opportunity had been presented to me, I would have taken it. There was a long time, when, if Sam Harris needed a kidney, I would have donated mine without hesitating. There was a long period of my life when I absolutely loved Sam Harris by this definition. ![]() We settled on: “Love is a commitment to another’s well-being further, a commitment so strong that it includes a willingness to sacrifice.” My therapist and I had to agree on a definition for “love” to use in his office, because it was never clear-not to him, and usually not to me-what I meant when I talked about my fears around love. ![]()
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