Weezer

I've been here couple of years. Hung around the ex-church of Christ site for a while, but as one person said, a lot of them had left the Church building, but not the parking lot.

Just curious. Do Calvinist claim to know who has been "elected"?

Be sure to keep taking your medication.

WELCOME! Be sure to cruise by the TESTIMONIAL section.

TRUMP?? (just kidding)

This was probably said above ( I'm to lazy to read it all ) but If there is a more intelligent being, or creator, where did he/she/it come from? And if it has always existed, perhaps everything has always existed in some form or another. Have fun figuring it out!

I can identify with what you are going through, and may face some of the same this year. Try to stay as far away from the subject of religion as possible. BEST WISHES!

I know what you mean. But I finally realized there is a lot in life we will never know, and nothing is totally guaranteed, HA! except taxes and death. I'll just live life the best I know how, try not to hurt anyone along the way, and take whatever comes at the end. LOL, If there is a life after this one, I'll do my best to come back and tell everyone! Anyone care to make any bets about me coming back? (excuse me for being in a funky mood tonight) Heck, why am I asking anyone to excuse me? I'M IN A FUNKY MOOD TONIGHT!

I wanted to believe in God. That is one reason it took so long to completely leave religion.

In a nut shell, I believe they highly influnced what christianity is today. If Jesus actually existed, it probably is very little like what he had in mind.

You got that right! But actually they realized that if one group got to express their views, they would have to open it up to everybody. And they dang sure didn't want the Catholics coming in.

I was at that point about 3/4 way through my spiritual journey. Keep on traveling with an open mind and you will likely come to where most of us are. Read our testimonials in the TESTIMONY section. I will "toot my own horn." Mine is called, TRUTH: A GRADUAL AWAKENING, and basically goes step by step from fundamentalism to agnosticism. I wasn't mad at the church, or God. Some things just didn't add up, so I started an off and on decades long search. WELCOME!

Geezer, I may have told you before, but if I didn't, I'll say it again. I like your postscript, John 8: 32.

HA! I didn't notice those until your post. Fantasies can be very interesting.

My sister just gave me a book copyrighted in 2006 named, "FIGHTING WORDS: A tool kit for combating the religious right", by Robin Morgan. I haven't finished it, but had also read Thomas Jefferson's views on Christianity and government, and to me it is so clear that the early father's were very careful to keep church and state separated. But it was a fight to do so. I was very lucky that my parents and grandparents were for separation. HA! Being members of the CofC, and my mother a school teacher, they fought against the Baptist coming in and teaching Bible lessons at the one room school where she taught. That was a hot issue back in the day.