Word: clayton
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...that when you do deeper and deeper research into the sciences, what you’re left with is a picture where there are a lot of places to make philosophical choices,” says David M. Silvestri ’07, who took a class from Clayton this year...
...Clayton says his upbringing was instrumental in shaping his personal religious views and conflicts. He explains that he was raised by a father who was “as anti-religious as you can imagine” and a mother who “hated religion with a passion,” making him “the most natural atheist in the world...
...Clayton adds that his adolescent spirituality was stereotypical of the hippie culture in northern California at the time...
However, at the age of 14, in what he says may have been to some extent a fit of teenage rebellion, Clayton underwent a powerful conversion—joining a Presbyterian church and participating in evangelical prayer groups...
...What do you do with liberal parents?” Clayton muses about his motivations for the conversion, proposing a series of hypotheticals. “‘Mom, Dad I’m gay.’ So? ‘I’d like to watch porn or read porn,’ So that’s fine—nothing at all could have disturbed them at all, drug use even...but to become a conservative Christian...they wept when I came home...