Huff expressed that he considers himself a skeptic in the sense that he “will reserve judgment on a particular topic until I feel like I have sufficient answers for any said topic.”
“But a cynic, I think, is doing so because the questions are the end point for them,” Huff said. “And that’s where I think we should be honest and self-reflective and say, ‘Maybe there are actually answers that provide sufficient groundwork to actually reconstruct the deconstruction that we’ve been putting ourselves through.’”
Huff indicated that he believes many people are “open” to faith but are “disenfranchised with a superficial religiosity that they experienced if they did grow up in the church.”
Reflecting on his own experiences with church in the early 2000s, Huff said, “There was just kind of a lot of superficiality, seeker sensitivity that I think had the right motivation but the wrong method by which to go about that.”
“They genuinely saw that they wanted to get people through the doors of the church, which is a good goal to have. But in doing so, what they were trying to win them with is what they won them to,” Huff continued. “And so because it was very superficial, it was very kind of on the surface, it didn’t have any substantial depth, when the winds and the rains of trial and suffering [and] hurt did eventually come, there was no root system to be able to ground them.”
“It’s too late for the tree to grow the roots in the midst of the storm,” Huff went on to say.
