(February 5, 2012 at 4:25 am)brotherlylove Wrote: Hey Sciwoman I don't recall saying anything like that. I am simply interested to find out what went wrong. Specifically, why you stopped loving Jesus Christ and then rejected Him. What was it that changed your mind and heart?
See, there it is, the arrogance. You automatically assume something was wrong with me (and others who have made the same journey). My journey started when I discovered that I had been lied to about a certain issue (what it was doesn't really matter). It was easy to discover this for myself, once I was convinced to look beyond the haze of rhetoric and dogma. If they were so wrong about that, what else where they wrong about? I took it upon myself to do my own studies and find my own answers. So many people claiming to have THE ANSWER, claims and counter-claims all backed up with scripture. The more I studied, the less sense it all made - contradictory claims, contradictory scriptures, contradictory interpretations. I started out wanting to be a better christian, but ended up becoming an even better person in becoming an atheist.
Religion is not the answer-it is the problem. Everything considered, we would be better off without it.~Baubles of Blasphemy~Edwin F. Kagin
"Much better to have the ability to think critically, than the ability to quote scripture. One says you have a functioning mind. The other says you're a parrot." -- The Secular Buddhist
"Much better to have the ability to think critically, than the ability to quote scripture. One says you have a functioning mind. The other says you're a parrot." -- The Secular Buddhist