If you are Christian, were Christian, whatever...how did it come to be ?
I used to be Christian....I look back now and realize it was only for two reasons:
1) I needed something to beleive in. I felt like I had no power at all. Beleiving in a superior force that cared about me made me feel safer, more secure, more powerful, and gave me a sense of a guarantee to some sort of happiness....
2) I was taught to beleive by family, freinds, and school.
Well..things happened, and I'm Agnostic now...I duno, i guess i just GREW UP or something....
Okay that sounds mean....but seriously...to be dead honest: I just became more confident as I got older. I got better looking, I filled out, people started to treat me different and I no longer felt socially anxious. My depression slowly withered away...and I started doing things for myself instead of praying to God for everything to go my way (none of the prayers actually worked...well maybe some did, but I'll never know, will I ?)
I am a lot happier now than I ever was before....that could be for many reasons, I am not blaming Christianity for any of my past suffering.
All I am saying is that Christianity did not work to help bring "fulfillment" into my life. Not at all. It didnt truly make me any happier, it didn't make me love myself or anyone else any more than I already did, it didn't bring up my confidense, pretty much nothing....it made no contribution to my mental health.....
I just felt like "God was teasing me"...promising me a life of completeness, of deliverance from "evil and suffering"....didn't happen. I stopped beleiving two years ago...and sorry but...coincidently, I am a much happier and more secure person now than before....
Well enough about me.....I'm sure Christianity works for some of you guys....tell me. What is your story ? How did you become a Christian, and how is your life now because of it ?
Depends - I would only have been a Christian in terms of one of my parents is (my mother, my father being an Atheist.) But then I have always questioned the claim that one if "born" into religion...
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I was raised a Christian and started to see the hypocrisy of it all, then when I got older studied different religions and beliefs and denominations...........once I did that I saw that it was a hoax.
Montheism always had much more of an exotic appeal to it.
Gods are crap. The Greek gods are the best though, because they are intelligent...and have points. GOOD points at that. And the sotries were composed by intellectuals and not impoverised dumb sand-crunchers.
Some people who claim to be happier now that they are not followers of Jesus say this because they do not want to live a life responsible toward God. They can do any thing that they want as such because they are not accountable to anyone or anything. To them this is bliss. "Do what I want (so long as it doesn't violate any man-made laws they may think to themselves)." That is all it is: a sefl-centered life that leads to indulgence in sin. Sin is pleasurable (the Bible says so) that is why people who turn their backs on God and live a life of self-centeredness and sin can say, "I'm happier...." Gratifying the flesh makes your flesh happy. That is all there is to it. But know this:
Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Please JIA...get over yourself. You don't have Omniscience, cuz you lack simple common sense....and that's the first step.
My current happiness has nothing to do with that. I am a lot happier now, because I accept who I am, I love who I am, and I feel a lot more powerful than I ever had my entire life.
I don't need another to secure me, I don't need to rely on constant positive feedback anymore, and I don't need to beleive in a fairy tale any more to justify why horrible things happen on this Earth....
While my years as being a Christian I was miserable....can you somehow explain that for me ?
I sliced flesh and sinew until rivers of crimson flowed, streaming across the floor and into the drain, and I saw the image of Christ--looking like a lamb so sacrificed--therewithin.
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Last edited by Zeal Ex Nihilo on Sep 1st, 2006 at 03:50 AM
"Do what I want" is a reality of the catch 22 that is built into christian religions. Free will is a b*tch when it gets in the way of herding the sheep. You still don't seem to understand that your infallible god created evil as well as good and righteousness. So, if he's just the scientist watching the rat traverse the maze, then I say "Fu*k him"...middle finger and all.
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Why are you so bitter, angry, mad at the world and practically incapable of responding to my posts without uttering profanity of some kind. That is why I called your responses infantile and sophmoric. Read Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary's definition for sophmoric.
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