(April 5, 2014 at 8:04 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Either they grew up on the happier parts, and ignored the horrible parts, or they just think there's nothing they can do about it, so they might as well go along with it. You don't want to be tortured in hell for eternity, do you?
Sometimes I wonder why christians even stay in the religion at all, and I realize that some really don't. They leave, and never look back. Some do because it's easier. They don't want to be ostracized, or risk being wrong.
Stockholm syndrome at its finest.
Are you saying the genuflect out of fear rather than love, and just don't want to admit it?
Anecdotally, this matches my situation fairly closely. Once I started to realize that I was doubting, I tried to make myself believe more out of fear than anything else. The more I thought about God, the less I saw him as all-loving.
