DISQUS

Bentley · 3 years ago

Yeah most of us here know exactly what you're talking about.

It's all about conditional love, the church members and family will love you, if you''ll pretend like them that you love jesus, they will form a bond with you if and only if, you will support them in their silly ignorance and self-righteous arrogance.

Christians have had their will stripped away from them by having to get up in public and state a creed or a pact with the imaginary god and now they are committed by virtue, a suicide pact similar to Kamikasism to be loyal to the blind faith, like Lemmings following the Pide Piper over the cliffs.

I told my parents about a year ago that I no longer believed in jesus and their faces and their demeaner changed immediately as if someone had just run over their favorite dog in front of them, they are 75 years old and have fervently believed in jesus for over 50 years and are so afraid to this day to question the bible, preachers and accuantances that claim they are a christian, they've been openly cheated and lied to by other christians and preachers and just simply pass it off as well Satan made them do it, but yet they are a christian, so god will judge them later, rather than stand up to them to their face and tell them that they cheated them, they are essentually religious cowards, they are people that have been brainwashed to the point of religious insanity, but that's ok because the bible cannot be defeated according to their stupid childhood silly beliefs.

Religions are the biggest sickness and biggest ills to have ever destroyed a country, America is already totally destroyed because we have let "turned the other cheek" destroy us, we let the Muslims in and other Terrorist's and immigrants in so that they may find jesus and they will slip in here and eventually destroy us with a nuclear device, that may be the day that all religious people suddenly leave this world because if I'm living, I'm no longer going to tolerate any more religion or preacher or jesus loves me bullshit, and I do not think I'm the only one that feels that way.

You're not alone Richard, you have friends here, Thanks, Ben

Arthur · 3 years ago

I wish you the best, Richard. And let me tell you, I also left Christianity about my mid-twens, and I fell into deep depression. Maybe I should have seen a doctor, but I got out of it by myself through the study of some psychology, philosophy and even spirituality (which is not the same as religion). If you need to be angry, be angry, but I daresay it won't give you anything back -- on the contrary, you will lose even more, and then you can later be angry that you were angry now... ;-)

freedy · 3 years ago

Richard,..hang in there we're all in the same boat man! It gets better.
It would help if everything was'nt geared toward religion,but unfortunately that's the world we live in.That's why we turned to "churchianity" to begin with.

Ian · 3 years ago

Hi Richard

I was a christian for four years (believed in the infallibility of the bible, that Jesus was the only way to heaven, etc), and I felt the same feelings of being lost, confused, and fearful upon leaving the faith. You're not alone in feeling alone and lost. I've been there, and it isn't pretty. But if you keep going, you will get through it. It took me a year, but afterwords I feel much stronger and more self-confident then before. If I can do it, you can do it.

Like Arthur, I started spirituality after leaving christianity and found it to be much more useful and helpful in my life. So much so, that i'm still a spiritual person, and I feel much better then I ever was as a christian. I still believe in a God, just not the human like god shown in the bible. And it is my belief that God would like us to grow up into mature individuals. I look back at my time in christianity as a learning period where I experienced the faith to learn what it was like and to appreciate what I found later on after I left it. Maybe you can look at your experience with christianity as a learning experience to help you grow and evolve as an individual.

Lorena · 3 years ago

Richard,

Thank you so much for your so-well-written story. I wish I had see it when I was your age. You are sorry you lost one third of you life, and I understand it.

You help me realize why after 40 years of indoctrination and only one year trying to walk away, I go from anger to depression to extreme skepticism. After all, they stole 40 whole years of my damn life. Yes, you and I have every right to kick and scream and be bitter.

Best

Optimist · 3 years ago

Richard, congratulations on breaking out so young. There are many members here who have only seen the light in their 40's, 50's or even later. For those people a much larger chunk of their lives have been wasted. You can be justly proud that you have achieved sufficient maturity at your young age to be able to face up to the bogey man and tell him he does not exist.

Remember, what happened in the past will not have nearly as much impact on your future as what you do in the present - right now. Its your life, live it. The purpose of life is life itself. It needs nothing more. When you see that, you will be able to shake off all the remnants of that disgusting mythology. If you tried to start a religious movement now that required people to engage in a canabalistic ritual of eating the body and drinking the blood of your leader, how long do you think it would take the autorities to get you locked up in a prison or an asylum?

Well done, you are free.

Jim · 3 years ago

Hi Richard. I'm glad to see your free of the Christian crap. I also was a solid believer for a deade having become a Christian fanatic in my mid fifties. I look back these day and really wonder how I ever succumbed to this Christian bullshit

Perry · 3 years ago

Organised religion is a human creation. The evil that organised religion has wrought (and is still wreaking) all over the world is a testament to that. You and me and the others here have chosen to advance our evolution by overcoming them and their false dogmas by purposeful baptism at the font of common sense, reason and logic.

Well done, Richard: you have been resurrected to life, overcoming a religious death.

Anonymous · 3 years ago

How sad to read these comments.

Why do so many awful things happen in churches and at the hands of Christians? Two answers: free will and sin.

I encourage all of you to think on this: Were you failed by God, or were you failed by people? People fail. God's people fail. God does not fail.

eraymer@37.com · 3 years ago

Yeah right, anonymous...

Richard · 3 years ago

Anonymous,

Should I logically deduce what it is that you are saying I am lead to believe one of either two different things:
1: The bible states that when Christ is accepted we inherit the holy spirit thereby instructing those whom he places in charge as to what to do and the "godly" way to behave in the church. If I follow that logic than I have no choice but to believe that God himself is evil because his spirit, living in those whom act out these things, is allowing this sort of behavior. Or:
2: The people in charge of the church are power crazed, cult loving, mind fucking, ignroatn people who failed to gain in the real world. Consequently they chose to run a church where they could say something, spout off a few verses to back up their theories, no matter how twisted they were, and then proceed to get what what they want from the person dumb enough to believe them.
I'm not sure which one I should buy, but either way it is not looking too good for the Christians is it?
RICHARD