Summary Of Born Fundamentalist Born Again Catholic By David Currie

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David Currie is the author of this book "Born Fundamentalist Born Again Catholic". He was raised in a family with strong Christianity foundations. His parents were worked as teachers at Moody Bible Institutes and the father was a fundamentalist preacher as well. Curie was brought up in fundamentalist Protestantism. He studies at Trinity International University and later mastered in Divinity at the same university. His primary objective for this book was to explain to his evangelical and fundamentalist friends why he decided to follow the Roman Catholic faith. He represents a well thought out, intelligible, systematic and lucid reason why he took this path. The author was a second born and the only in a family of four children. He was always …show more content…

His family especially the parents would not welcome his decision. It was a form of disgrace to them because they had spent the rest of their life trying to teach him in the evangelical faith. Therefore, it was a hard decision for him to make because it might cause problems in his family. Besides, his friends, especially those they spend the rest of their life serving together will not understand the essence of making this decision. Most of them abandoned him and in some cases, he found himself alone and without a friend. Therefore, he faced many decisions, but he was determined to pay the …show more content…

I only approach my elders and friends when I need advice regarding this issue, I weigh the advice offered and come out with a perfect decision. In my life I have disagreed with parents regarding religious matters because they wanted to impose on me the churches to attend, behaviors to adopt while I have different values. During my childhood, my parents made to attend a church against my will because it was not the one I wanted. When I become of age where I was big enough to make a decision, I had to change. In the former church, there were some practices that I was not comfortable with. Hence, I had to go where I felt comfortable and my needs were well