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My journey so far
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My journey so far
I guess I started out like everyone else: not even being aware of the concept of God. Somewhere along the road, I must have been told about God but I cant now remember that happening. I got sent to Sunday School and got indoctrinated into Evangelical Christianity. At 13, I did that "Save Me Jesus, You Are My Lord!" thing, but my conversion to evangelical Christianity didn't last more than 3-4 years. My sexual habits drove a wedge between me and God, you see, and though I prayed and prayed and prayed and then prayed some more for God to purge me of my unclean acts, God did nothing. Except watch, that is.

Once I was outside of Christian influences, I began to wonder if this God I'd been told about was really what people said he was: kind, benevolent, just. Then I tried to reconcile that with the supposed ultimate fate of the wicked: eternal damnation, which to an evangelical is that burning-in-hell thing.

When I was 30 or so, I met some Mormon missionaries. They explained that the rest of Chritendom had got that stuff all wrong. They told me about their three kingdoms thing, wherein almost everybody got to live eternally in kingdoms of decreasing luxury. So I became a Mormon for a very short while, but left when that sexual habits thing got in the way again.

These days I'm still looking for an answer to does-god-or-doesnt-god-exist. And I've turned my back on Jehovah now. If he exists - and I really hope he doesnt - I think he should be opposed rather than worshipped.

Wasn't that Lucifer's battle-cry? Confusedhock:
The interesting thing about Truth is that Truth is still Truth even if the devil speaks it. The interesting thing about Lies is that Lies are still Lies even if God speaks them.
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My journey so far - by JudgeDracoAmunRa - January 6, 2012 at 12:35 pm
RE: My journey so far - by Erinome - January 6, 2012 at 12:42 pm
RE: My journey so far - by JudgeDracoAmunRa - January 10, 2012 at 3:08 pm
RE: My journey so far - by Napoléon - January 10, 2012 at 3:01 pm
RE: My journey so far - by JudgeDracoAmunRa - March 30, 2012 at 11:55 am
RE: My journey so far - by Faith No More - March 30, 2012 at 2:01 pm
RE: My journey so far - by padraic - March 31, 2012 at 12:02 am
RE: My journey so far - by JohnDG - March 30, 2012 at 2:11 pm

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