Mathew Enoch Mount - Short Autobography

My name is Mathew Enoch Mount, born and raised in the Illinois cities of Rock Falls and Sterling where I am among the five percent of the population that have a college education. In early youth, prior to entrance into primary school, I held the unquestioning belief in the Christian like monotheism that my church taught. As a result of what educators in primary school taught, I became an atheist antirealist very early in my experience with the public education system. I thus held the belief in antirealism until I became converted into a realist materialist by an atheist High School instructor as I was working towards completing my High School diploma.

Only in my first year of my college education in the fall of 1998 at Sauk Valley Community College in Dixon, Illinois was I introduced to the fact that a highly educated person could be a devoutly believing Christian. Furthermore, my first college instructor became my best friend, and I entered into a discipleship relationship with him as he mentored me in the Christian faith intensively for six consecutive years. During the time of my six year conversion, a small and growing community of people like me began developing around me and my college instructor while he mentored me in public throughout the college building that we attended.

When I transferred to Southern Illinois University Carbondale, I rapidly gained a large network of Christians even though I lived six hours from my hometown aria that my family had lived in for generations. During my time in Carbondale, I became directly mentored by two Bishops of two different denominations, a highly devout Messianic Jewish leader, and a world leading Methodist philosophy professor. Prior to my graduation from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, I was blessed with the experience of having started a small congregation of college students, developed a active apologetics organization, and stared a theological news group of church leaders local to the Carbondale aria that has now grown into almost four hundred people today from around the world.

After I graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, I returned to my own home town. During the last few years, I have worked in the retail industry after having graduated from college, and I can see the sharp contrast in the interactivity of faith expressed as colleges and universities are open to public expression of faith while most retail stores see any expression of faith (in any way) as a dangerous legal liability that can bring management an even greater fear than death when they see employees or customers expressing the Christian faith in any way. Unfortunately, unlike me, many people that enter the retail industry directly after graduating from High School may never be exposed to the Christian faith as anything more than a private hobby at best.