RE: From Jesus to just Myself
February 5, 2016 at 1:29 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2016 at 1:34 pm by Wrikudoro.)
(February 5, 2016 at 1:15 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:from your sister from another Mister in Bible Belt hell, USA. I was raised Pentecostal too. My home life was not ideal. I was a high-school Jesus freak to please my Mother, and because I actually believed that if I prayed hard enough, Jesus would make me straight. (HA!) Escape from Pentecostalism to open-minded free thinker is a long, gradual, arduous road, but extremely worth it. Welcome to AF.
Hahah. Yeah Jesus made us straight indeed. It's repugnant to think that, we never asked to be born gay, but somehow it's our fault. Somehow, we're the one who have to work against it. That is toxic
(February 5, 2016 at 1:20 pm)robvalue Wrote: That's a hell of a story, thank you
You've been on quite a journey! It sounds like your inner sceptic just couldn't be silenced any longer. You've shown a lot of strength by fighting for what is true, rather than caving in to peer pressure and comfortable delusions. You're totally right, I call Christianity the Frankenstein's monster of religions. It's a patchwork of reheated mythologies. Those caught up in it just can't see it for what it is.
I'm really glad to hear you feel the best you have been, that is great! And you have found love, that is awesomeI hope things continue to go well for you, and it would be great if you could find a home here.
The thing is, reheated mythologies have to be better than the originals (like we do in superhero movies or mythology retelling or revisiting), but somehow what they did to the bible is actually worse. Like I said, watered down. It lost its magical and mysterius aura of the originals, because they tried to make it more compatible with contemporary world (the more modern the translations, mentions of unicorns etc were altered). It is a sad sad book lol.
