RE: In a world without God...
June 13, 2013 at 5:08 pm
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2013 at 5:09 pm by Rahul.)
(June 13, 2013 at 4:25 pm)Drich Wrote: When I first bent that knee and God slowly began to reveal himself to me and I began to understand the difference between the God of the bible and the God of my given denomination I was dumb founded.*
*emphasis added
You never quite got over that stage, eh?
This is horse shit dude. Speaking as someone who was a firmly believing and worshipping Christian for 25 years, it's nonsense.
There is not a single thing you are experiencing through your faith that I didn't experience in mine. You just like to talk shit to atheists online which I never did.
Let me tell you how strongly I believed. In Southern Baptism you get baptised when you're are saved. But that's just symbolic. As a young child I didn't quite understand that yet. I wanted to get saved at 5. But my mom didn't think I was old enough to understand. She finally relented when at the age of 7 I told her how I had been shaking in fear at night worried that I would die and go to hell.
I didn't even consider critically examining my faith until the later half of my 20's. And it took me a good long while about 5-6 years before I could really reason it out well enough to convince myself. It was really unintentional. If you had told the 25 year old me I'd be an atheist at 35 I would have been highly offended.
I hear about former Christians deconverting in like a month or less. I don't see how that's possible. It was too firmly entrenched in me.