RE: Ex-Christian
August 14, 2023 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2023 at 10:47 am by Confused-by-christianity.)
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It goes, it goes.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
   (August 10, 2023 at 7:18 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: We had a choice when I was in basic. You could go to church on Sunday mornings or you could clean the barracks...only time I have ever signed up for cleaning. I went to services, but I was probably still half-Pentecostal then.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
(August 14, 2023 at 2:38 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: For de-converts, what led to your loss of faith? I was raised Pentecostal, and it never occurred to me to doubt anything. I undertook the read the (KJV) Bible as an act of devotion and because I thought I ought to know the Bible. Then I read it again in a Modern English to make sure the King's English hadn't thoroughly confused me. It hadn't. I couldn't reconcile the contents of that Book as connected to a tri-omni Creator. I was particularly appalled by the small children and pregnant women body counts. I became an agnostic theist; I still believed in God, just not the Abrahamic version. I believed a bunch of other woo too; ESP, Ancient Astronauts, ghosts, Bigfoot, Nessie, pretty much all of it. I started becoming skeptical of those claims and eventually realized there wasn't sufficient evidence to justify believing any of it. In time I came to the same conclusion about God while I was attending university in my mid-thirties and took a course on religion and a course on logical fallacies in the same semester.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
(August 14, 2023 at 11:40 am)Confused-by-christianity Wrote:(August 14, 2023 at 10:52 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It goes, it goes. I've been on a late neolithic kick. Newgrange-Carrowkeel-Carrowmore, and then Bell Beaker replacement. Solar cults and ancestor worship.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
(August 14, 2023 at 9:53 am)Confused-by-christianity Wrote:(August 11, 2023 at 8:00 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: The God I don't believe in is the one in the Bible, the one who drowned all the babies and puppies on the planet. Psalm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. Genesis 3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? A description of a good god would use only one of those. Either he would know everything, or he would not know some things. A god described as simultaneously knowing everything and not knowing some things is a bad good. (August 14, 2023 at 8:59 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:(August 14, 2023 at 9:53 am)Confused-by-christianity Wrote: Do you have an idea of what a "God" should be?? (Im thinking a "Good God" btw) I'm trying to think of a word for it. Integrity I suppose - Whole. Unified and in harmony?? |
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