Who's your daddy?

[Chad32]

I was raised christian. We were kind of a liberal to moderate group, and sometimes I'd switch between the methodist and baptist churches. There weren't many differences, besides the way they baptized you.

I grew up thinking everyone who was good worshiped god. I believe in hell, but only as a place that bad people went, so I wasn't worried about going there. It wasn't until later that I heard of the idea that we all go there by default, and have to beg god not to send us there. I also believed that Jesus and Yahweh were different people entirely, because Jesus acts like they're different people.

In the old testament Yahweh says there is none beside him. Jesus is his son. This heavily implies that Jesus didn't exist before Mary gave birth. He also tells a guy that only god is good, and even explicitly excludes himself from his definition of goodness. he mentions there are things Yahweh knows that he doesn't. He tells Yahweh that he'd rather not be crucified, but he'll do what he's told.

As I grew up I gained a better understanding of right and wrong, and realized that the core belief of christianity is wrong. an innocent person being brutally killed for the crimes of the guilty, to be sent to eternal hellfire if they don't accept that. So now I'm an atheist. I thought about becoming a buddhist because it values actions over words, and believes in reincarnation. Although apparently you're not supposed to want to be reincarnated. Someone also pointed out some problems with that once, and it's not quite the happy feelgood philosophy that I originally thought.

Since my community was so insular, I really didn't have any experience with other beliefs outside the internet, so I just settled on atheism.