Ive been thinking...
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I dont like my religion. Ive grew up being forced to go to church every sunday, went to catholic schools most of my childhood, all that good stuff. but.. now I'm starting to wonder what to really believe, like since I was born catholic I never experianced anything else. and lately Ive been realizing god's an a--hole... like not just me, like I got my problems and whatever, but look at everyone whos way worse off, if god is so great why would he let horrible things happen to anyone? Maybe its all just people, and the world is happening the way its happening cuz of people, praying or beliving in anything wont make you better off than anyone else. Just how you treat yourself and others..
Plus the church is way to political for me. ugh. its not even about religion anymore, its mostly about money.. and voting against gay marrige. which I'm for, and just that fact will get me disowned from my family. so will sex before marrige. and listening to the music i listen to, and thinking that this religion is a waste of time will get my family to get the demons out of me.....
like maybe there is a god, but does religion really pay off, or just doing what you think is right? like, the little mexican lady starts praying when shes about to get stabbed..god doesnt save her, she still gets stabbed.... Id rather just take my chances doing stuff for my own reasons, not cuz god will reward me. Id rather help people cuz I want to, not cuz it'll get me in good terms with some god that might not even be there -
That's why I have my own religion. So I don't have to worry about all that.
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Already ahead of you on that one.
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That's why I believe it doesn't matter what religion you are; you'll end up dead just like everyone else.
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As said in the Rise Against song, "Make It Stop";
"What God would damn a heart?
And what God drove us apart?" -
I know that I've always been taught that God allows us to suffer because it can bring us closer to him, but I've always wondered why bad things have to happen to bring us to the good. Then again, how would we know what good is if we didn't experience the bad? Thing is, to me it all seems like one big paradox.
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The plan backfired big time. All the bad shit made me closer to reality and life, not God. And it will never make me closer to God.
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I know right? I'm constantly hearing stuff about how people came closer to God through hard times and how no one truly makes it out of a hard time without God, but I personally know so many people who have become atheists because of a hard time they went through that I can't even believe what my teacher is saying. And some teachers don't know anything about our religion. For instance, I've been told that evolution never happened because it's what the Church says, but the Church never officially said anything about it. Most of the priests I know even say that the creation story is symbolic and that evolution is how creation truly happened.
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1. Not atheist (although what I consider "God" isn't personified and is less a "God" and more a force)
2. I left Christianity not because I had "a bad experience and God wasn't there for me" or "What God allows evil to happen or damns good people to hell?" (although that's partially the reason).
I left because of the book of Timothy. That's right, sexism made me quit (organized) religion. I'd rather go to hell than serve the sexism god, which is already hell in my opinion. -
I like what Mo said, bad stuff brings you closer to reality. It definately does.
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I have my own religion for a number of reasons.
1) I'm sick of people that either did or didn't exist telling me what to do. If they're not even real, why listen to what they have to tell me?
2) "God" doesn't tell me what to do. I do. "God" doesn't lead me in the "right direction". I do. This sort of goes with the above reasons.
3) I don't like how a lot of religions are like: "You're welcome to join us! If your not gay/bi/etc." It BUGS me. SO MUCH.
4) I don't want to get up every Sunday morning to go to church. (I don't care if there are stupid later services, I still don't wanna go.).
There are more. MUCH more. -
The Trickster NoviceChurchs kind of need to be concerned about money. I have first hand experience of having chrurches die because of that. I thought of 3 reasonable possibilitys.
1. Be an aetheist.
2 be an appaptheist.
3. Just dont bother changing. -
Um...im sorry Coolme. I would just like to say that I believe that God sent us here to be tested, so one day we can come back and live with him forever. This is why he gives us challenges and hardships, because he is testing us.
Yep, im not trying to convert you, but I just dont want other people to think Mormons are like that, because we arent. -
I get what you're saying, all the way. And there comes a time when you have to make the decision for yourself: Do you or do you not believe. Your parents or anyone else can't force you to. It's all up to you. But you know, the life we're living for isn't here. God never promised bad things WOULDN'T happen to us. But He did promise that He will NEVER leave us and NEVER forsake us. And He's kept His promise.
And you know the truth? Christian, Muslim, Buddist, Ethiest, it doesn't matter: None of us are getting out of here alive. -
Unexpected, there's no such thing as an ethiest. There are, however, people who are athiest.
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