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Atheist to Agnostic to Christian to what I am now

That's rich. I don't understand how that works at all. You were rational and using your brain, and then...???

Anyway, you're here. So, welcome, I suppose.

Being an atheist in and of itself isn’t necessarily an indicator of rational thought. There’s plenty of us out there that stumbled on the right answer for all the wrong reasons.

Hello Poppy.

You wanted me to elaborate on what I am, what I mean by a simple Christian. A lot of ideas and concept's have been added to what Christ taught. Like a building that has been decorated with a fancy facade and as more and more decoration is added the building is lost from sight. I just try to see the original building, understand what he was saying.

Let me give an example, Christ said love your fellow man, he didn't say except for, or only if.
That's a lot of people, all of them. It's a big concept I am sure you can see the problems with it. But when you start limiting that care that respect to only the groups and individuals you approve of, then you open the door to hating the ones you don't.

So that's what I do, I try to think like that, to live like that.

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It wasn't reason that led you to an immaterial explanation. It was something else entirely. You should start a thread about it, could be interesting.

You can only stretch coincidence and synchronicty so far. Littlewoods law is OK for once a month, but when it is every day you have problems.

Maybe if time allows, but that's it for me tonight, sleep well.