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JerCotter7 on 03 August 2010

Why do people keep posting shit about religion on this site now? Nobody cares what religion anyone here is. I'm not gonna stop talking to someone because they are jewish, christian or atheist. Wish there was a way to ignore retarded threads about religion. Just because some people think every religion is corrupt doesn't mean that someone who believes in the religion is corrupt themselves. They go on about how religion causes war when they themselves complain about people who have a religion.

 

Whatever. Stupid threads.



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chocoloco on 03 August 2010
Coca-Cola said:
chocoloco said:

I was 14 and my brother said he didn't believe in God. I had never agreed with my dads seemingly overprotective Christian ways so already had some dicontent with the religion. That day driving and sitting in church I decided if god was real he would actually show himself. I had never seen any proof of God so I decided I would not believe in a God until I saw empirical evidance. Never happened and overtime I decided that its impossible to think one religion is more likely than another. I could probably write a 30 page essay now on why I do not believe in Christianity. PEACE!

To me, the evidence of God is what He created - I think it's beautiful

And though the evil of men is great, another proof of God to me is that most people tend to desire to do good.  I do mean people of all religion or no religion.  I still believe God's works through us all.

I respect your decision and life is beautiful.



Rath on 03 August 2010

I grew out of believing in God. I don't mean that in an offensive way to people who believe in God, it's just what happened for me. I stopped believing in all things supernatural - Santa, tooth fairy, God, unicorns - at the same time.



Coca-Cola on 03 August 2010
pearljammer said:
Coca-Cola said:
pearljammer said:

I don't suppose I was ever really a christian. I was raised catholic, but had only believed in God much in the same way I had Santa Claus. My struggle with it in my early years as a developing adolescent were very short, much like other beliefs I may have held at that time.

So why did I distance myself from it? I guess I'd been skepical and couldn't have been bothered with it at an early age. My family didn't pressure me nor were they so open of their beliefs around us, so that helped me to make up my own mind; I didn't have anyone to appease nor to model. I haven't gone back to see if there is anything that strikes me as an adult as the very concept of belief is silly to me.

You should go back and see as an adult.

I think it's good that many young people who grew up in religion leave and experience the world, but many go back to religion - I think for a very good reason.  I enjoy talking with people who left the faith and come back to it much more than people of faith that never left cause they want to be obedient.

C.S. Lewis said in mere Christianity that when young people leave the church after high school actually are getting closer to God.

Perhaps I should have phrased it differently. By distancing myself from it, I just simply mean that I couldn't be bothered anymore - not marrying in a church, not baptising a child, etc. I had done plenty of reading, searching, discussing, etc but not in the sense that I had been looking for something... just simply out of interest.

To be honest, I didn't quite like what I'd read. I didn't quite agree with many of the scriptures and felt that its moral direction was unnecessary, and often times, in my opinion, to be wrong, in discerning right from wrong.

I couldn't possibly be more indifferent to religion of any kind. I think it's interesting and certainly helpful to some in several ways, but personally, I can't fathom actually believing in something. I hope this doesn't come off as offensive to anyone; I'm just trying to answer this as wholely and truthfully as possible.

no offense taken.  It seems you've thought things through.





SmokedHostage on 03 August 2010

Because on one hand, I attended school where I was taught that evidence is needed for something to exist.  Another, I was taught by my Catholic parents that in this grand world of ours we had a Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy and a God.  Forgive me those of you who are religious but at 14, I denounced God because there just wasn't enough evidence that a sky grandpa with omnipotency existed.



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mysticwolf on 03 August 2010

because of science.



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The_Killer on 03 August 2010

I figured that if God does exist then he is the most destructive thing in the univserse and "if" it does exist it's so cruel I would prefer not to believe in it.



eb30577 on 03 August 2010

I quit Christianity, and for that matter all religion, when I stopped believing in fairy tales. The bible is the greatest FICTIONAL STORY EVER WRITTEN, and that's it. Nothing else.



FaRmLaNd on 03 August 2010

Because theres no good reason to believe in God.

The burden or proof isn't on me, the question really should be for the theist, why do you believe in God? Its not really for me to answer. The lack of evidence means I don't need to believe in something. The very fact that I'm asked to have faith (that is, belief without evidence) is defeatest claptrap in my mind. Religion, by putting forward faith is already acknowledging that theres no good reason to think God exists, let alone a specifically Christian God.



JPH85 on 03 August 2010

I bet the people who wrote the declaration of independence and fought for the freedon of USA are regretting every second in the afterlife on how this country and its people turned out to be.