(March 31, 2013 at 2:13 am)Openminded Wrote: Believe me, I've tried to become Christian again. But its hard when everything they are taught and worship is something I just can't believe.
Careful, this kind of talk gets the fundies in a real uproar. Next thing you know, they'll tell you that you weren't really trying, or something similarly ridiculous.
Hang in there. It isn't your fault that religion makes people so intolerant and cruel. As others have advised, once you're old enough and have your life in order, let them know. They may do all kinds of unkindly things out of "love" but if the family bonds are strong enough they'll get over it in time.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
