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Greetings
Hello,

My name is Anthony. I live in a small town in Texas around 45 miles southwest of Ft. Worth. I work for an oil field company as a admin assistant. Graduated with a degree in psychology and have an unfinished master in criminal justice. Old career was working as a guard at a juvenile detention center. As far as my faith background, raised a Christian in the Baptist tradition. I nave no sad stories about my religious up-bringing, my family was fairly relaxed but extremely faithful at the same time. I began to question religion around my late teens and going into college, nothing ground breaking but researching Buddhism (from a philosophical standpoint) opening my worldview up a little bit. Then I started doing Biblical and religious research from a secular viewpoint and I began viewing Christianity from a different mindset and began questioning major doctrine. Now that I'm older, I'm more and more skeptical of religious dogma; mainly after becoming involved in Celebrate Recovery. I wouldn't call myself an unbeliever, but I can be lumped in with skepticism. I'm on the threshold, sort to speak, but I'm still holding on to a couple of beliefs; I'm sure out of a subconscious need for comfort.
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Welcome!

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#3
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Ahoy hoy, welcome.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Nice to meet you all.
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#5
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Welcome!
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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Hidihi
Welcome
"If we go down, we go down together!"
- Your mum, last night, suggesting 69.
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Hello! Big Grin
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#8
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Do any of you have any advice for someone who is questioning their religious/spiritual beliefs? I found a couple of resources by accident but wanted to be open to any suggestions that any of you would have.
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welcome
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
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(January 3, 2019 at 3:00 pm)alw0992 Wrote: Hello,

My name is Anthony. I live in a small town in Texas around 45 miles southwest of Ft. Worth. I work for an oil field company as a admin assistant. Graduated with a degree in psychology and have an unfinished master in criminal justice. Old career was working as a guard at a juvenile detention center. As far as my faith background, raised a Christian in the Baptist tradition. I nave no sad stories about my religious up-bringing, my family was fairly relaxed but extremely faithful at the same time. I began to question religion around my late teens and going into college, nothing ground breaking but researching Buddhism (from a philosophical standpoint) opening my worldview up a little bit. Then I started doing Biblical and religious research from a secular viewpoint and I began viewing Christianity from a different mindset and began questioning major doctrine. Now that I'm older, I'm more and more skeptical of religious dogma; mainly after becoming involved in Celebrate Recovery. I wouldn't call myself an unbeliever, but I can be lumped in with skepticism. I'm on the threshold, sort to speak, but I'm still holding on to a couple of beliefs; I'm sure out of a subconscious need for comfort.

Sheldon Cooper, you finally decided to convert? Meh, I am a bit skeptical, but welcome anyway.
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