RE: What made you give up on Jesus?
December 16, 2015 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2015 at 12:08 pm by Paraselene.)
I basically had the same experience as Vic regarding my short experience with religion.
Growing up, we went to church (Roman Catholic) and I was taught to say my nightly prayers, but when I was still young we stopped going to church for some reason. The nightly prayers stopped after that, and my family was not the type to make religion a big deal in our home. In fact, other than seeing the pictures of Jesus on the walls, religion was a non issue.
Later, when I was a teenager and in the last year of high school, I allowed myself to be duped into believing in Christianity. I was basically a loner throughout my high school years, and religion/church was a way and a place for me to feel I belonged. I learned the hard way the lengths to which believers will go to emotionally manipulate people into believing as they do.
Growing up, we went to church (Roman Catholic) and I was taught to say my nightly prayers, but when I was still young we stopped going to church for some reason. The nightly prayers stopped after that, and my family was not the type to make religion a big deal in our home. In fact, other than seeing the pictures of Jesus on the walls, religion was a non issue.
Later, when I was a teenager and in the last year of high school, I allowed myself to be duped into believing in Christianity. I was basically a loner throughout my high school years, and religion/church was a way and a place for me to feel I belonged. I learned the hard way the lengths to which believers will go to emotionally manipulate people into believing as they do.
"What a little moonlight can do." ~ Billie Holiday
