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Kasz216 said:
outlawauron said:
Never answered the denomination question.

Sounds Evangelical.  They're basically the only people who deny Evolution.

Then again... considering his teachers it'd seem catholic as I don't think Evangelicals have their own schools?

US catholics in some franchises do stuff a lot different then the Vatican though.  Apparently it's much more decentralized then people think.  I mean that whole circumcision thing is totally an American tale for example.

It's kinda anti-free market too.  Like if you belong to one Franchise say in the California area... your stuck there.  You can't like move to Ohio and be a priest.

I was thinking more Baptist or Methodist.

 

Most Evangelicals (I hate this term) don't belittle people or groups.



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I believe that our alien gods are experimenting evolution on us.
At some point, when our technology grew to a point where it threatens to rival the alien gods themselves, they will annihilate us all. Death Star style.



It always saddens me when 'Christian teachers' dumb everything down/ generalise it. (ie saying Homosexuality is like murder etc or denouncing atheism without actually giving proof). There is actually proof to support a young earth, so it always annoys me when instead of using this teachers just say 'atheism has no morals, it is bad' or whatever.

Try to understand that although it seems like it, there are reasonably minded christians, at least there are within the people i associate with, who have level headed views and arent just blind bible bashers like the people in the OP. You shouldnt let a few people become a generalisation of a whole religion for you.



 

 

 

 

 

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Congratulations on your new found wisdom. I would adivse you to start reading into other fields of science as well that your Christian school has ignored or presented incorrectly. Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' is a great place to start.

I share a similar story with you. I was raised by a religious family and at a young age realized problems with their and my religious leader's logic. I was once told that I was going to Hell for believing in black holes. I'm sure the person had no idea what a black hole was, just that they knew that science was continually proving Christianity wrong (atleast in its fundamental form) and so they denounced anything concerning science at all.



RockSmith372 said:

If you are born in a Christian family, then that first one is the toughest one for me. I haven't told my parents that i am atheist, but i have implied my beliefs to them, and plenty of them are not compromisable to Christians. I do not know when the best time to them is yet, but i am willing to tell them if the time is right.

I've been an athiest for a long time, but I have never told my parents this.  Whenever I go home my parents want me to go to church with them, so the farthest I have come is telling them that I didnt agree with their preacher and church on many religious issues and do not want to worship with them.

My parents, probably like your parents, might not be able to understand the reasons for your beliefs.  My parents never went to college and have no understanding of modern science, and being an college educated engineer myself I could never explain physics, biology, chemistry or the like to them in a way that they could understand my reasoning, so I find it best to keep such things to myself. 

Of course, you know your parents well and can make a good guess at what their reaction could be, but if you think their reaction will be overwhelming negative on your relationship with them, you may want to keep quiet.



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Wow. I am sorry for you. I am catholic myself and went to catholic school and I learned evolution there.

I had a professor in religion who did talk about homossexuality but he was very respectful and told us to be the same. And he never compared it to murder or adultery.

I have to say I had great role models of religious people growing up, sorry you didnt.



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marciosmg said:
Wow. I am sorry for you. I am catholic myself and went to catholic school and I learned evolution there.

I had a professor in religion who did talk about homossexuality but he was very respectful and told us to be the same. And he never compared it to murder or adultery.

I have to say I had great role models of religious people growing up, sorry you didnt.

See where most people get that from is where Jesus was speaking about all sin being equal in God's eyes. People take that without the speaking in which he was speaking. He was talking to people who were validating themselves and what they percieved to be small sins, because the people they were persecuting had done worse.

His point was that you shouldn't try to rationalize your sin by comparing it or yourself to others. (The whole "Well at least I didn't do _____" thing)



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Then follow young Mat whenever he calls,
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Kasz216 said:
outlawauron said:
Never answered the denomination question.

Sounds Evangelical.  They're basically the only people who deny Evolution.

Then again... considering his teachers it'd seem catholic as I don't think Evangelicals have their own schools?

US catholics in some franchises do stuff a lot different then the Vatican though.  Apparently it's much more decentralized then people think.  I mean that whole circumcision thing is totally an American tale for example.

It's kinda anti-free market too.  Like if you belong to one Franchise say in the California area... your stuck there.  You can't like move to Ohio and be a priest.

If you want to know what school i go to, I go to Briarwood High School. It is a school made by the Briarwood Presbyterian Church, who is the founder of the organization Presbyterian Church in America. Just for those who were curious



Yeah I was wondering what denomination.

It makes sense now.



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Then follow young Mat whenever he calls,
To dance with Jak o' the Shadows."

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ManusJustus said:
RockSmith372 said:

If you are born in a Christian family, then that first one is the toughest one for me. I haven't told my parents that i am atheist, but i have implied my beliefs to them, and plenty of them are not compromisable to Christians. I do not know when the best time to them is yet, but i am willing to tell them if the time is right.

I've been an athiest for a long time, but I have never told my parents this.  Whenever I go home my parents want me to go to church with them, so the farthest I have come is telling them that I didnt agree with their preacher and church on many religious issues and do not want to worship with them.

My parents, probably like your parents, might not be able to understand the reasons for your beliefs.  My parents never went to college and have no understanding of modern science, and being an college educated engineer myself I could never explain physics, biology, chemistry or the like to them in a way that they could understand my reasoning, so I find it best to keep such things to myself. 

Of course, you know your parents well and can make a good guess at what their reaction could be, but if you think their reaction will be overwhelming negative on your relationship with them, you may want to keep quiet.

My both of my parents graduated from college. My mom is an occupational theropist and my dad is a doctor and owns his own family practice. My mom is very hard headed, while my dad believes in natural selection but does not believe in anything that contridicts the Bible like the Big Bang, etc. I talk to both of them, asking why evolution is impossible. My mom says, "Because it doesn't go with the Bible"(SIGH). My dad is more intellectual and responds by tell me that God created kinds of species and through 10,000 years they've diversed in lions, tigers, bears(oops nevermind), and cougars. It is much more logical than what my mom says but it has it's flaws.

I personally don't care that they believe in God. Some people need religion to help get them through the day. I, on the other hand, would rather live my life knowing the truth about reality, it's not an happy ending unless you try work in order make it one someday. I may feel sometimes that there is no one there to help me, but i get by with the will power that is in every single one of us, and with the many friends i have, who know that i am an atheist.

As for my parents knowing yet, i will probably show them slowly until they realize that i am not a Christian. Usually time is the best way to calm people down.