(December 16, 2014 at 11:15 pm)dyresand Wrote:(December 16, 2014 at 10:19 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: That's true. When I was a child, I assumed that practically everybody would go to heaven regardless of religion. The big thing in our Episcopal church was participating in communion and remembering the sacrifice of Jesus symbolized in body and blood, etc. There was no concept of being "saved", "born again", "filled with the Holy Spirit", etc.
The gentler forms of Christianity are better, but the basic Christian brainwashing still happens IMO. That brainwashing makes it easy for people to transition to the crazier forms of Christianity.
I would still have been a christian for the fact if i was in the gentler christian faiths but considering i was in a baptist church yeah... no way.
but i would still kind of say even in a gentler Christianity i would still have my doubts but i wouldn't need to worry about it.
- i would like to be a theist again but its just not going to happen.
In a weird way, it seems like the people in fundamentalist-leaning denominations are taught that religion is about facts instead of warm fuzzies. Those people easily transition to atheism when the facts are studied.
