(December 7, 2017 at 3:40 pm)purplepurpose Wrote:(December 7, 2017 at 3:09 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I am fortunate, because my church never battered me over the head with hellfire and brimstone. We did grow up believing that hell was a lake of fire where bad people go, but I never feared it. At this point it's like I'm likely going to inevitably go there, whether I pretend to worship this god or not, so why spend my life in fear?
Do you have doubts that God might exist in some form or the other?
Yeah, there are too many similarities between Jesus' stories, and stories of other savior figures for me to really take him seriously. Likely more reasons than that to stop believing, other than just being disgusted with parts of the bible, and not wanting to follow someone like that, even if he did exist.
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
