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4 Oct 2007 Alpha Course: Introduction

[Alpha] My girlfriend has convinced me to go on a ten week course called The Alpha Course. As far as I can tell it is designed to either convert people into Christians or gives existing Christians a brush up on how they can be better Christians. Or something like that. Plus It's a social thing, meet different people, yadda yadda yadda.

Now I am not a Christian and I don't intend on becoming one. I find the whole religion to be... I dunno, too commercial. Plus the whole thing doesn't seem believable, or more like it feels like it can be explained in other ways (either through science or with some other 'far-fetched' theory). That's not to say I am an atheist. I do have a kind of spiritual side. I do believe that there is a possibility of there being 'more to life' than what we can sense and what science cannot explain. I mean all religions seem to share a common theme and a common set of elements, they can't all be wrong, can they?

The reason I trying out this Alpha Course is because I want to hear what they have to say about Christianity. That and a part of me wants to try and prove it's all wrong. I don't know if I can prove it wrong. I know that I won't be able to prove it wrong to all the other Christians (although it would be kinda cool in a blasphemous, sinful way). I just want to be satisfied to make my decision based upon what they present to me. Plus it is completely free of charge so there's no real reason not to do with.

So I thought I'd write about how each session goes to give people an insight to what happens on the course and how I felt it went. It's a shame that there is not an Alpha Course for all the religions. That way people are given all the facts before they made a decision on their beliefs.

Posted at: 17:05 PM

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