Why did you quit Christianity?

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highwaystar101 said:

Because even as a young impressionable child I found a lot of the stories that were being told to me as though they were fact unbelievable. Such as...

 

• All snakes being eternally punished because the devil inhabited the body of one once (talk about injustice).
• A man who survived being eaten by a whale and survive. Not to mention the subsequent destruction the digestive system would cause and the sheer lack of oxygen.
• A flood which covered the entire Earth, killing everything except for two/seven of every animal species, which all lived within walking distance of an old man who wanted to save them.

And some things like the entire book of Leviticus are just absurd. I think I realised quite early on that I wasn't a Christian.

As a Christian I've learned that these stories are true.  Whether I believe it to be true events or not is not that important.  A rabbi told me that these stories can be allegorical.  The story (parable) doesn't necessarily have to be true.  They are told to make a point. 

As a Christian I don't believe that God created the world in 6 days e.g. , or snake tempting Adam and Eve is Satan himself.    

But I do believe that God created the world (science will show us how he did it), and that man are fallible.