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QueenBee · Newbie Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 13

well, i have to admit i did believe in god. and bible and all that jazz. until a few f**ed up things happened in my life that just made me realize what a horrible thing god was if it was real. then i met my husband and he opened my eyes to the possibility that there wasnt one. and it all made sense to me. explained everything, (which x-tians to this day cant explain)
well i have yet to tell my fam at this point and they claim they are x-tians.
anyways, i would like to know how your fam came to find out.

thanks

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Captnmorgan · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject:

I came to realize it was bullshit about the age of 14 after my first baptism. All of my friends, adults and church members told me what a wonderful experience it was. How cleansing and powerful. How wonderful you will feel after being baptized. So I was like, "shit..I gotta get me some of that!" So I did it, and all I felt was wet and embarrased. Then I started asking hard questions during Sunday School. Instead of answering them, they took me in a back room to pray with a councelor. So I stopped going. I didn't come to grips with it until much later when I met my fiance' and she started "really talking" about it. I never had a conversation about it, and the rest is history. I don't remember how I told my parents. My dad is a part time preacher. I know that they freaked and they still deny it to this day. Even when I say it to their face, they will say "oh..no your not..it's just a phase". etc.
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QueenBee · Newbie Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 13

i know what u mean about asking questions. i have asked alot of ppl diff things about that religion and all i get is "he doesnt let us know everything"

or some crap like that. i say if he was real then whats with all the holes in the story?

anyways thanks for sharing:)

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Nugget · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:28 am Post subject: My story

I too was a xtian. Devout, serious. As I began to study the bible in my early 30's a lot of questions began to develope. I started to read the bible and understand it in a way that was not taught from the pulpit. The bible is taught from the pulpit the way the preacher is taught to understand it in school and from their peers. If you study it without bias or persuasion it says many many different things. Then if you study it in its original context, aside from the translations and english language you strip it down even further. Most xtians are taught a lie from the beginning and without lifting a finger to find out the facts for themselves they buy into it. Few xtians fail to understand that many of the concepts that make up xtianity are not at all new and wonderful ideas only given to the xtians. These philosophies go back to the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians. The concepts are not at all new and have been controlling people and keeping them in line for tens of thousands of years. See we do need xtianity to contain the chaos, without folks would be running around doing as they please. There are some of us who actually live good lives without the fear of doom and gloom hanging over our heads. Some of us can actually be do gooders without the threat of hellfire and brimstone. That brings me to the fact that many of my friends who were going straight to hell who were nicer and kinder and far more genuine than any of my churchgoing heaven bound "friends". None of which I have heard from of course since leaving, yeah they care, I'm very glad they don't, I don't want to hear their hyped up bullcrap!!! Okay so now I am at the place were I am now, I don't have a clue about life cuz I devoted so much of my life to god. So now I am trying to figure it all out again. Reanalyzing evolution and how it all began, that hurts my head trying to get a hold of that one!! There is just so much to learn. My hope is that we find some life out there somewhere. Just one microbe will prove that religion is a farse. It won't prove that there is not a god. But it will prove that if there is a god, religion has absolutely nothing to do with god.
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