- It was just "always there," part of my growing up.
- This way seemed just fine for myself, siblings, cousins, friends. It was just part of our intro into life.
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My parent's were always religious, actually most of my family is. Unfortunately they are disappointed in me because after years of listening to it, I came to terms that I simply cannot believe it.
If you're a parent, taking them with you to Church from Day One, modeling the behavior you're supposed to when you're out of it, limiting the type of media they're exposed to, studying the text every day you can with them, and making sure you maintain a good relationship with your spouse, if you have one. I recommend the Authorized King James Version of the Bible as the text to study , of course, because
1) I've never found it to be wrong on anything to date, and challenge anyone to show me a case where it is
2) Even anti-religious atheists like Richard Dawkins praise Christianity as more benign than a religion like Islam, whose texts advocate jihad
3) Groups like the 7th Day Adventists, who are CLOSE, but not quite right, yet because they follow a lot of proscribed KJV Bible teachings in regards to diet etcetera, have been statistically found to be among the healthiest communities,
4) because relatively fair-minded atheists like Stephan Molyneux freely admit that the Church has, arguably, the best prescription for healthy individuals, family, and society.
My dad is still a fundamentalist Christian to this day (my mom has since rejected a lot of that dogma, but still loves the Bible), so you better believe I grew up going to church, and even went to Christian middle school and high school hearing plenty of the fire and brimstone bullshit. My oldest brother was OCD and eventually really started taking much of the Christian dogma to heart and really turned full blown schizophrenic and killed himself 11 years ago this May 5th. Would he have been crazy without the religion? Possibly, but I have no doubt in my mind that he was made exponentially worse because of Dogmatic Christian Bullshit. So I was pretty similar to my oldest brother and actually felt a lot of the same thoughts/feelings sinking in (especially going to Christian high school), but was fortunate enough to see how much it tore my brother apart from the inside out, so I was able to break away and reject it.
That being said, I have been on a few Medical Mission trips with my dad (he's a Pediatrician) and they were some of the best experiences of my life (I of course skip the "mission" portion of it, but the "medical" portion is amazing). I went to Peru and Trinidad with him a few years ago. We actually were on a boat on the Amazon River in Peru. It was amazing.
So needless to say, I'm quite anti-Christian or any fundamental religion and lean more toward. People in this country are brainwashed to be afraid of Muslim terrorists, but I'm just as scared of Christian fundamentalists, and now we have faux fundamentalists in our highest offices. Wolves in sheep's clothing. It's terrifying. These people don't listen to science, logic, reason, facts. They've even coined the phrase "Alternative Facts."
I would respond to riv, but he's got me on ignore..you know, like a mature person? Lol.
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