Hey guys, wassup...
It's become clear and known to my family that I am no longer a Christian. At first, it was what you'ed expect. My mom bacame upset, as well as my aunts, my dad to a degree, and bassicly all my friends at school save maybe a couple people.
my mom went to the extrem of bassicly villifying me to my brothers and sister (two of which are too young to have opinions of their own) RIGHT INFRONT OF ME.
Now, we've since had our talks and bassicly the agreement between us is "agree to disagree" sorta thing, which is fine, my desire was not to change minds or anything just to make it clear I just couldnt buy into that sorta stuff anymore.
So here i am, a nonbeliever of the christian faith.
If not Christianity, where do I stand?
Well I'll tell you...
I've learned ideas of the left hand path, the ideas of free thinking, inquiry, reason...and the idea that, in our own subjective universe, are our own gods/masters. So Atheist? Welllll...probably more agnostic because to say a god does not exist would mean I have absolute knowlage of the universe, which i do not.
one of my aunts tried argueing with me, pointing out how her stomach tumer vanished seemingly over night, or how her son (my cousine) survived being rolled over by a car despite being really young (we're talking todler). She seems to believe that these were directly related to her god...for some reason. Which brings up the question of miracles.
seeing as how thousands of diffrent gods are beeing worshiped, I dont see how any one person can just autamaticly claim "THIS IS CLEARLY THE WORK OF GOD!!!"
Me:"okay...why?"
"BECAUSE ONLY GOD CAN DO MIRACLES!!!"
Me:"thats a baseless assumption..."
"YOUR HEART IS TOO CLOSED TO REALIZE THE TRUTH!!!"
Me:"nooo...i just realize there is more too the situation then just "God"...and even if it was an act if a god, whos to say it wasnt any other god (Or goddess)? Any Theistic person can claim credit in this situation...
"I made it on time for work...surely Zues is looking out for me."
"That man was cured of his disease, therefor Odin is real."
"The universe is so spectacular...the flying spegheti monster must be alive and well, PRAISE BE HIS MIGHTY MEATBALLS!!! lol"
So yea, left hand path all the way :3
What do you guys think?
It's become clear and known to my family that I am no longer a Christian. At first, it was what you'ed expect. My mom bacame upset, as well as my aunts, my dad to a degree, and bassicly all my friends at school save maybe a couple people.
my mom went to the extrem of bassicly villifying me to my brothers and sister (two of which are too young to have opinions of their own) RIGHT INFRONT OF ME.
Now, we've since had our talks and bassicly the agreement between us is "agree to disagree" sorta thing, which is fine, my desire was not to change minds or anything just to make it clear I just couldnt buy into that sorta stuff anymore.
So here i am, a nonbeliever of the christian faith.
If not Christianity, where do I stand?
Well I'll tell you...
I've learned ideas of the left hand path, the ideas of free thinking, inquiry, reason...and the idea that, in our own subjective universe, are our own gods/masters. So Atheist? Welllll...probably more agnostic because to say a god does not exist would mean I have absolute knowlage of the universe, which i do not.
one of my aunts tried argueing with me, pointing out how her stomach tumer vanished seemingly over night, or how her son (my cousine) survived being rolled over by a car despite being really young (we're talking todler). She seems to believe that these were directly related to her god...for some reason. Which brings up the question of miracles.
seeing as how thousands of diffrent gods are beeing worshiped, I dont see how any one person can just autamaticly claim "THIS IS CLEARLY THE WORK OF GOD!!!"
Me:"okay...why?"
"BECAUSE ONLY GOD CAN DO MIRACLES!!!"
Me:"thats a baseless assumption..."
"YOUR HEART IS TOO CLOSED TO REALIZE THE TRUTH!!!"
Me:"nooo...i just realize there is more too the situation then just "God"...and even if it was an act if a god, whos to say it wasnt any other god (Or goddess)? Any Theistic person can claim credit in this situation...
"I made it on time for work...surely Zues is looking out for me."
"That man was cured of his disease, therefor Odin is real."
"The universe is so spectacular...the flying spegheti monster must be alive and well, PRAISE BE HIS MIGHTY MEATBALLS!!! lol"
So yea, left hand path all the way :3
What do you guys think?
