(August 15, 2013 at 11:43 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:(August 14, 2013 at 10:05 pm)Drich Wrote: lol no you weren't. You were born into a version of a made made religion who took the title of Christianity. Biblical Christianity is a personal choice we all must make apart from what religion we were born into.
And you don't think your kids would have even a slight unfair advantage when it comes to becoming biblical Christians compared to, say, the children of an Imam of the Taliban?
(August 15, 2013 at 12:50 am)Undeceived Wrote: Your third option is to not pick an option? You have just blown my mind.
Someone admitting they honestly don't know which of two options is actually the case can have that effect on some people.
Being born into a religion especially several generations in almost alway results in failure when it comes to worshiping God. It happened with the Jews repeatedly hence the need for the Judges found in judges one and book two.
This is also found to be true in Christianity. This era was known as the dark ages. These dark times happen when people focus on worshiping on the method of worship rather than God Himself. Another example can be found in most of the members here. As most of you started out in a church of some kind as as you spiritually matured you saw the flaws in your religions, and left God because you assumed that God was completely represented by what you started out believing. Which is good for a young child but not so good it seems if/when you grow.
Even if the deeply religious stay in the church they tend to be the empty angry, and disconnected you all like to rail about. In short religion is a tool, like a hammer. In the right hands with the right intention it can be used (in part) to build a house. But, in the wrong hands with the wrong intentions that same hammer can be used to tear a house down.
Being born into a religion can be a blessing or it can be a curse. It depends on the person.
