People can imagine themselves to be water buffaloes if they want and it makes them happy, just don't ask me to imagine along, because I'm not into it.
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I ate Easter dinner with my family Sunday. Quite a religious group they are. Missing from the gathering were my two sons, and my niece. Interestingly those three have been prayed for extensively and were brought up in church. One's an addict, one's dead, the other chooses to stay to himself for the most part and avoid such gatherings. (he's a good kid)
All the sincere requests to the Lord and Savior resulted in exactly the same requests being made to Santa Claus. (Oh how I wish I'd used logic more and superstition less)
The ultra-religious family of Baptists had a family friend there (current ORU student) who was commenting on the odd practices of other religions. She didn't know me or my views. Asked me if I was familiar with any of these cults..."yes, I was in one myself, I replied. I was a Baptist for 40 years or so, but I grew out of it".
Mom was sitting next to her, not pleased lol.
The ham was good.
All the sincere requests to the Lord and Savior resulted in exactly the same requests being made to Santa Claus. (Oh how I wish I'd used logic more and superstition less)
The ultra-religious family of Baptists had a family friend there (current ORU student) who was commenting on the odd practices of other religions. She didn't know me or my views. Asked me if I was familiar with any of these cults..."yes, I was in one myself, I replied. I was a Baptist for 40 years or so, but I grew out of it".
Mom was sitting next to her, not pleased lol.
The ham was good.
You must be so proud.....
I have no issue with many hypocrites, they may themselves be trying to reach an ideal that is hard to reach, and continually strive to reach it. The hypocrites I have issue with are those that try to impose their ideal on to me and can do it by force, and expect me to live up to it while giving themselves a pass.
No, I'm really not.
I actually feel pretty foolish for not seeing things from a logical perspective sooner than I did.
Being in church from an infant on up imparts doctrine into the developing brain and really makes it hard to shake some of those beliefs.
That's why every single cult wants to get the children as early as possible. Their ideas won't stand the logical scrutiny of a reasoned adult, and makes them hard to recruit and control.
People can identify as Christian all they want. It doesn’t make them Christian in my opinion. And some of those identifying as Christian absolutely need a proper mental health referral.
I know this isn’t directed at me but I’ll chime in. I have a similar story to @TedKennedy in that I grew up deeply Christian and even aspired to be a pastor at one point.
Fast forward to the present and I’ve also outgrown it. I won’t go into the whole story but I just personally feel that religion itself is silly. Once we are done, the only place we live on in is the memories of our loved ones and what we did to impact them. I don’t necessarily disbelieve that there is a higher being but the one we are discussing just doesn’t add up for me.
As far as my feelings for those that believe? Well I attend church every weekend with my family and support them in their religious pursuits. My 14 year old was even baptized recently and I was there clapping for her. Once the kids are older, I’ll gladly provide my thoughts but for now I just support them
By being there. To sum it up, I just live and let live when it comes to religion. It’s not for me. The lifestyle and principals are great and I try to apply them to my life…..just doing it because that’s just what a good person does.
What do you believe in besides your own superiority?
So God not answering your prayers on your timeline caused you to stop believing? Do you still believe in the eternity of heaven and hell?
I am thankful that our lord and savior Jesus Christ made it ok to eat ham, bacon and other pork products... Not to mention shellfish.
"Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.” - Matt 5:11
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