Question

[G Alan]

You belong to a church, yet the religious views under your username is listed as “Do not like religion.”  Uh huh.

In any event, I grew up in a mostly non-practicing Catholic household.  I never truly believed in any god, and I’m beyond thankful that I’ve only ever been in a church 10 or fewer times in my life.

Haha!  You caught that.  Yep, I do go to church.   "Religion" and "religious" people frustrate me.  I don't like legalism that falls into religion, nor do I like the religious people who put themselves above others because they have lots of head knowledge about a particular faith.  I am a follower of Jesus and believe in Him as my Lord and savior and try to follow His commands.  Not rules of man.  I am not out to force my faith onto anyone nor do I condemn anyone for what they believe.   I share my faith/beliefs when asked or am given the opportunity to do so.   I am on here to just figure out why people "walk away" from what I believe in.  And I find it very interested to see why people do not believe in God or any God. 
So,  have you ever really searched for truth?  Or have you just not thought about it and settled into something you find comfortable?  Has something happened that you are grateful for not being in church?  Maybe with "Christians"? 
Thanks.

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Hi Losty,  There is a lot in the  Bible that seems far fetched.  Some things are really hard to wrap the brain around and understand.   Some of the versions are so hard to follow as well for me.  I use the NLT version and NASB.  It is a whole lot easier to read and understand.  So if you don't mind, is there anything in particular that made you not believe the whole?

Well there’s the obvious stuff mainly, a man living in a fish, a man building a boat big enough to fit two of every animal, the idea that homosexuality is somehow morally wrong, killing babies, forcing women to marry their rapist or even stoning a woman to death for not yelling loud enough when being raped. There’s too much in the Bible that simply cannot be true if there’s a good loving all powerful god out there. There’s too much in the world that just can’t exist simultaneously with a good loving all powerful god. I know the world is real, what I’ve witnessed myself and what many people have witnessed and documented is real. So god just doesn’t make sense with that.

Now maybe there’s a god that isn’t all powerful or isn’t all good. I don’t know. But if there is it certainly isn’t anything worth worshipping.

Wow.  Thanks so much for your honesty.  Those are definitely some tough things to wrap the head around for sure.  Those topics found in the bible are very much troubling to a lot of people, who do not believe in the God of the Bible.  
Again,  thanks for being honest!