Guest October s Autumn Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Saying "I don't believe in Christians" seems to be the best I can explain myself at this point in my life. Some background: I grew up in the Assemblies of God church. Since it was all I knew, it was quite normal for me. I wasn't allowed to go to movies or dances. My parents didn't drink alcohol. I believed in a 7 day creation. Then I turned 16. I'm not sure if it is the age and development of critical thinking that started the whole thing or if it was having to move my Junior year of high school... I do remember having a lot of questions that I knew to keep to myself and then I remember seeing the powers that be start to fall. If you were around in 1988ish you might remember the fall of Jimmy Swaggert and Jim Bakker. (Tammy Faye turned out to be pretty cool in the end before she died.) At 18 I went to college (a "liberal" Christian college) and found out that most of the stuff I'd been taught growing up was pretty much BS. Many of my professors were American Baptists (and very liberal from my point of view). I discovered that Baptists (at least this bunch) was nothing like what I'd been told. So when I started college I stopped going to church. I returned to a United Methodist church for a few years and actually went to Seminary. Seminary is good if you want to take "the red pill" and wake up from that deep sleep you've been in! So from here on out I stopped going to church altogether. I did go to a Synagogue for a while which I really liked. It was a "liberal Conservative" synagogue. I stopped short of converting to Judaism. Anyhow, fast forward to a few years ago and I found a progressive/liberal church -- United Church of Christ which is much better than my previous experiences but I'm still in a state of turmoil. I find fundamentalist/conservative Christians frustrating because they claim the bible is everything to them but seem to know nothing about it. On the other hand while Progressive/liberal Christians are not condemning everyone to hell they seem to be equally ignorant. (Ignorant in the literal sense, lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified). So right now I seem to be able to say: I don't believe in Christians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest October s Autumn Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 I'm not sure I should have posted this here. If you need to move it just let me know where you put it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShallowByThyGame Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Here's some things to chew on: If the Bible is divinely inspired, then why are there so many different types of Christians? If the Bible is not the literal word of God, then how can any verse be trusted? Can you imagine the possibility that the mythology of Christ's divinity could be fabricated by his closest followers? How many other humans have also been called Gods? (We actually have at least one living one in Kim Jong Il) Keep asking questions and don't be afraid to find out how far the rabbit hole goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Davka Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 A couple more questions: If God gave us the Bible, why is it such a mishmash of easily re-interpreted stories? Is that the best God can do to communicate with humans? What happened to omnipotent? And since God supposedly knows everything, he would have known that most people would totally misinterpret the Bible and use it as justification for reprehensible acts. So either God is weak, God is ignorant, or the Bible is not from God. The more I study science, the less room I see for the Christian God. The only kind of creator being that makes any sense is one that is not particularly concerned with the fate of sentient beings who happen to evolve in the universe, because they were never the point anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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