Is the Holy Spirit Misleading You?

[Jehanne]

If death is nothingness, an endless, dreamless sleep, then, no, you won't find out, and neither will I.  My belief in the Christian god was no different than centuries of belief in fairies.  I got to a point in my life where I, finally, abandoned it; I only wish that I would have arrived at that determination much, much earlier in life.  So many wasted years...

 Did you try and study the protestant side of Christianity before you leaped.

GC

I was raised in Protestant evangelical Christianity.  I love the quote by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, "A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong. I have decided to mobilize everything against Luther: my kingdoms and dominions, my friends, my body, my blood, and my soul."

Protestant Christianity is a joke.  John Calvin taught that God had predestined some (the Elect) to everlasting bliss while he had predestined others (the Reprobate) to everlasting torments, infants included.  The Roman Church taught that infants who died without Baptism were forever consigned to Limbo, the uppermost level of Hell, while others said that infants are covered by The Atonement, and those who die are in Paradise.

Christianity is a man-made religion where no one can agree on anything.  I used to have arguments, while in college, if there was going to be 1,000 years of peace ("the Millennium") after the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.  We used to argue if The Rapture would happen at the beginning of The 7-year Tribulation, or during the middle or at the end.

So, sorry!  I SHOULD have been studying during this period of my life, preparing for graduate school; instead, I blew my studies on religious nonsense, and I will go to my grave regretting how much time I wasted in non-productive bullshit.