RE: Before You Became an Atheist, Were You Afraid of Yourself?
December 9, 2014 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2014 at 2:39 pm by Nope.)
This thread makes me realize that I need to move to Europe.
It looks like the two greatest influences on my religious life, ironically both Calvinism and Catholicism, are responsible for a lot of unnecessary guilt when I was religious. My family were nominally Baptist but whenever we went to church it was the old timey, fire and brimstone variety with a lot of emphasis on sin. A lot of the churches that I gravitated toward as a young adult were more Calvinistic. Later, I grew attached to Catholicism because it seemed more gentle then Calvinism. Ray Comfort and his good person test is a pretty good example of Calvinistic thinking. "You are doomed no matter what because you are evil so accept the fact that Jesus loves you. or burn in hell like you deserve."
Maybe he is omnipresent?
It looks like the two greatest influences on my religious life, ironically both Calvinism and Catholicism, are responsible for a lot of unnecessary guilt when I was religious. My family were nominally Baptist but whenever we went to church it was the old timey, fire and brimstone variety with a lot of emphasis on sin. A lot of the churches that I gravitated toward as a young adult were more Calvinistic. Later, I grew attached to Catholicism because it seemed more gentle then Calvinism. Ray Comfort and his good person test is a pretty good example of Calvinistic thinking. "You are doomed no matter what because you are evil so accept the fact that Jesus loves you. or burn in hell like you deserve."
(December 9, 2014 at 12:28 pm)robvalue Wrote: Quick check, do you have a twin?
Maybe he is omnipresent?
