(December 18, 2014 at 8:34 am)MissR Wrote: Was forced to be a Christian as a child and hated going to church. I didn't mind the stories about Christ, they were amusing. But the bible is almost impossible for me to read or believe. It seems to me that whenever whoever wrote the bible many people were seeing and hearing things. Today we have a name for that. What if someone today wrote all the things he/she said and heard in their psychosis? Would anyone pay them any mind? The stories from the bible or from my catechism classes, now that I look back, are all fairy tales that in one's right mind wouldn't believe. Why did I take it all so seriously at one time.
I was afraid to do anything because "God" was watching according to the mean priest who gave us a lecture on purity and not touching one another or oneself. Oh the awful fears I had instilled in me.
But now I am free from the church!! I don't believe a lick of that b.s. I'm not even an agnostic because it's absurd to think there even might be a God imho.
With freedom comes great responsibility.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
