Well, She Finally Wants To Know Why I Dropped God
So my cousin and I got into another debate/argument/slapping "talk" on FB. Naturally, she posts links in response to anything I say on my wall, and this time, in regards to Easter, a link she posted proved my point about the Paschal Moon. ANYWAYS, she said Easter is NOW about Jesus, and I agreed that she and her book can hijack all the holidays they desire because it isn't anything new in history.
Yeah, went over like a lead balloon.
Needless to say the conversation went down hill from there. She claims she hides my anti-religious posts, but looks on my page now and then and responds when she feels challenged...even in remarks that are NEVER directed at her, but are part of a larger dialogue with other atheist minded folks I know on the net. I call her out on that BS, she in turn says she feels "sorry for me, but you will learn the truth and burn in the Lake of Fire" blah blah blah.
I told her she should feel sorry for me because my family has gone insane with loss of sense of reality and I am very lonely knowing these people are mentally unstable and suffering so much.
Yeah, went over like a lead balloon.
But finally, FINALLY, she asked me why I became an atheist. I realized this is the first time someone as ever really ASKED me that ever elusive question of WHY. I hardly EVER hear any religious person ask why, how, or what made one change over. So, I thought I would share my response. Mind you, I have not linked my testimony on here to my FB account, seeing as how my parents are living, but I still managed to give her a very effective, but slightly watered down answer.
Here it is:
Mindy Riehle-Benoit Amanda, did you ever believe? If you did, what happened to make you not believe? I just don't get why you are an atheist.
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Amanda Kate Weikert-Ashcraft
Well, first of all, the stories didn't add up. I realized this by the time I was 10. I saw the corruption in translations in the message given from church to church. I realized that one's interpretation of the bible was literally subjective... to opinion from individual to individual. I also learned that sins can be forgiven even if the trespassed don't forgive. How would you feel being in heaven with a person that abused in every way possible their child? And they are there because they repented to God, never told the full truth to anyone else, AND didn't bother to really truly get forgiven by the offended? Then I travelled. I saw there is more to this world than my local Baptist church and that EVERY religion has just as much right to claim to be "the one" compared to the other. Then I saw the repetition of the famous biblical stories in texts 1000s of years prior to that of the OT written scriptures that were found in the Middle East. Then I read what was misinterpreted ON PURPOSE by the priests, popes, and monks in the early centuries AD. Did you know not a single miracle was attributed to Jesus until nearly 300 years AFTER his death. But, there was already a bible out before that time...hmmnn.. Many things contributed. Then I saw the answers we get through science, medicine, and humanity. I realized that if it is unkown, doesn't make it divine. It just means we don't have answers yet. And we find those answers everyday. Humanity is an amazing thing, and it didn't take a magical creator to have this happen. It is proven we are made of stardust. But, I don't know what parts of science you accept or not. So that is a moot argument.
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