RE: Greetings
January 4, 2019 at 10:03 am
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2019 at 10:11 am by alw0992.)
(January 3, 2019 at 7:27 pm)wyzas Wrote: Welcome Woof.
If you don't mind, what is Celebrate Recovery doing for you? Just curious, don't feel compelled to respond.
https://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
It was for stress management. Being in a small town there are no support groups other than AA or NA. But after a month I started to dislike it but kept going because my wife found it useful for her depression but I'm slowly withdrawing from it because of my changing beliefs and the cult like behavior that's showing in Celebrate Recovery. If I need more help for stress, I might do SMART recovery because they provide online groups.
(January 3, 2019 at 7:15 pm)ignoramus Wrote: You may find that many here are ex-Christians who know the bible better than most. Hence our agnosticism...I completely understand. I no ulterior motives other than having friendly conversations and learning from other people. One could say I'm on the threshold for holding no religious beliefs because there's so much I don't believe.
You seem level headed and intelligent. You have to live with your beliefs. Whatever they may be.
We have no issues with anyone believing anything they like. That was never the issue.
The only gripe we have as skeptics, is having our intelligence insulted en mass by religious people coming here and trying to prove their god using logic and science.
(Which obviously can never work because it wasn't those things which made them believers in the first place)
Why is faith not enough for them anymore? It usually seems they are desperately trying to convince themselves more than anybody else...
Welcome aboard the not so crazy train matey...
(January 3, 2019 at 6:58 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(January 3, 2019 at 3:00 pm)alw0992 Wrote: Hello,Sheldon Cooper, you finally decided to convert? Meh, I am a bit skeptical, but welcome anyway.
My name is Anthony. I live in a small town in Texas around 45 miles southwest of Ft. Worth. I work for an oil field company as a admin assistant. Graduated with a degree in psychology and have an unfinished master in criminal justice. Old career was working as a guard at a juvenile detention center. As far as my faith background, raised a Christian in the Baptist tradition. I nave no sad stories about my religious up-bringing, my family was fairly relaxed but extremely faithful at the same time. I began to question religion around my late teens and going into college, nothing ground breaking but researching Buddhism (from a philosophical standpoint) opening my worldview up a little bit. Then I started doing Biblical and religious research from a secular viewpoint and I began viewing Christianity from a different mindset and began questioning major doctrine. Now that I'm older, I'm more and more skeptical of religious dogma; mainly after becoming involved in Celebrate Recovery. I wouldn't call myself an unbeliever, but I can be lumped in with skepticism. I'm on the threshold, sort to speak, but I'm still holding on to a couple of beliefs; I'm sure out of a subconscious need for comfort.
Skeptical of?
