I was raised southern baptist in the good old bible belt. My first experience with "god" was when I was 6, I don't remember much of brought it on but all I remember was running to my mother's bedroom screaming and crying that I don't want to go to hell. She called the pastor and I was "saved" the first time. Some years later around the age of 13 I was at a play and one of my friends felt the need to be saved, so I went with him and got "saved" the second time. The 3rd and last time was after a major car crash when I was 19 and my mother told me "god" was trying to get my attention and asked if I was really saved. So I got "saved" again. Now through out all the years I have asked questions to my mother like why does god demand so much from us? That answer is well he loves us so much, that he deserves it from us. So I always had been a skeptical of this god idea. Though when I was 20, I said screw god and have been atheist for the last 4 years.
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"God" is something of a shmuck but his followers are genuinely fucked up.
You're best off ignoring them. 
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  (September 30, 2010 at 12:46 am)freemike Wrote: The 3rd and last time was after a major car crash when I was 19 and my mother told me "god" was trying to get my attention and asked if I was really saved. So I got "saved" again. So you had the salvation trifecta, ay? So much for the Southern Baptist doctrine, "Once saved, always saved." That one at 6 years old should have done the trick. lol Welcome to the forums!
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--- We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot "... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir "As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger" --- (October 11, 2010 at 12:59 pm)everythingafter Wrote:(September 30, 2010 at 12:46 am)freemike Wrote: The 3rd and last time was after a major car crash when I was 19 and my mother told me "god" was trying to get my attention and asked if I was really saved. So I got "saved" again. So the key to salvation is to be a gullible child.  RE: My story...
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