My church experience was fairly liberal. Everyone was nice, and the preachers didn't go on about hellfire and brimstone. They weren't trying to scare us with hell. they talked about love, forgiveness, and good things.
I remember having some pretty decent discussions about the stories in Sunday school, which was a bit more personal than proper church services. Not that I really questioned whether the stories were true or not, but e talked about details like why Pontius Pilate allowed the pharisees to rile up the crowd at Jesus' trial.
Of course there's also the free food. Sit through a service, and you get food. Usually it's an hour, but I remember once the service had been over an hour and a half, and the guy just kept going. I walked out, and went home for lunch. I was about ten, and I wasn't going to wait 6+ hours between meals if I didn't have to.
The fact that I was never reprimanded for doing that shows how easy going my religious community was.
I remember having some pretty decent discussions about the stories in Sunday school, which was a bit more personal than proper church services. Not that I really questioned whether the stories were true or not, but e talked about details like why Pontius Pilate allowed the pharisees to rile up the crowd at Jesus' trial.
Of course there's also the free food. Sit through a service, and you get food. Usually it's an hour, but I remember once the service had been over an hour and a half, and the guy just kept going. I walked out, and went home for lunch. I was about ten, and I wasn't going to wait 6+ hours between meals if I didn't have to.
The fact that I was never reprimanded for doing that shows how easy going my religious community was.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
