09 Aug '16 12:18>1 edit
Originally posted by sonshipIn other words, you don't want to just hear from someone who quit Christianity, you want to actively deride his decision. Very Christ like.I gradually came to realize that the Bible did not provide me with credible evidence to support the claims that Christians make about God and about the divinity of Jesus ~ and the significance of his life ~ which were a set of notions and hopes that I had internalized and held to be true for many years.
You gradually realized that who yo ...[text shortened]... ut Jesus and decided from other's arguments that you did not want any longer to be a Christian ?
Myself, I only left because I was forced into it in the first place, it was a place I never wanted to be in and got out as soon as I could. I realized that at age 8 when my grandma told me I would be damned in hell if I wasn't baptized in the Pentacostal way, not that wimpy Lutheran thing I went through (because I was going to a Lutheran school from K-8)
So I did just to shut her up, she was very happy, but I was left gravely disturbed at the dichotomy of the two religions both supposedly worshipping the same god and both even protestant.
I am very comfortable with that decision made at age 8.
So go ahead and give me your derision. It won't touch me any more than grandma did almost 70 years ago. I have actually lived almost 4% of the entire 2000 years since the inception of Christianity and if anything am more against it now than ever.