Back when I ate up what the church told me and repeated some of these poor arguments in religious debates I got ripped a new asshole and rightfully so. Through repeatedly failed arguments and other threads my mind started to become a little more and more open to rationality. I'd keep going back and forth for a while until finally I was too alienated by other Christians to want to be around them. The last church I attended kept talking about how awful Muslims and Obama were through propaganda I knew was bullshit anyway.
Then I just stopped praying, going to church and reading the bible. My fear in God decreased as I was no longer compel to repent for any 'sin' and after coming here and reading many of the arguments I used to read all the time and answering how being told I'm going to hell made me feel, once I was finished with that post it was the straw that broke the camel back and I renounced it all.
I never had faith to begin with. Only fear.
Then I just stopped praying, going to church and reading the bible. My fear in God decreased as I was no longer compel to repent for any 'sin' and after coming here and reading many of the arguments I used to read all the time and answering how being told I'm going to hell made me feel, once I was finished with that post it was the straw that broke the camel back and I renounced it all.
I never had faith to begin with. Only fear.