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Religious/spiritual views: Mysticism based on Judeo-Christian belief systems | Religious/spiritual views: Mysticism based on Judeo-Christian belief systems. Kevin has tended to waver between what might be dubbed atheism by mainline Terran blends of Judeo-Christian religion and a moderate form of protestantism. He tends not to discuss his religious views with people in general but evidence exists that he employs religion at times as a psychological stabilizing mechanism. | ||
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Once, when asked by a friend why he described himself as an atheist despite believing in God, Kevin said that he was an atheist with respect to most of the versions of God any Christian or other religious person had presented to him. | Once, when asked by a friend why he described himself as an atheist despite believing in God, Kevin said that he was an atheist with respect to most of the versions of God any Christian or other religious person had presented to him. | ||
It was while in college that Kevin's views briefly became a problem. In a speech concerning the Christian communities in the region where his school was located, Kevin condemned the views of most of the members of those communities as out-dated and antiquated, claiming that their view of God was insulting in that it placed someone supposedly awesome enough to have created the entire universe into an Earth-sized box. As a direct result of this speech, Kevin received a formal reprimand on his transcript for inconsiderate and slanderous | It was while in college that Kevin's views briefly became a problem. In a speech concerning the Christian communities in the region where his school was located, Kevin condemned the views of most of the members of those communities as out-dated and antiquated, claiming that their view of God was insulting in that it placed someone supposedly awesome enough to have created the entire universe into an Earth-sized box. As a direct result of this speech, Kevin received a formal reprimand on his transcript for inconsiderate and slanderous speech. | ||
Since then, Kevin's concerns over spiritual matters have not been | Since then, Kevin's concerns over spiritual matters have not been as prominent. His cosmopolitanism with respect to the varieties of species of which the Federation is comprised has given rise in him to a moderate protestantism which he sees as beneficial to himself as a human but not necessarily something which ought to be evangelized as some Christian sects of the day might. | ||
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