why i'm not a christian

Was kicked out of sunday school because wouldn't stop asking questions.


For the rest of my life (so far) I continued questioning, and I see why I was kicked out.

Originally posted by apathist
Was kicked out of sunday school because wouldn't stop asking questions.


For the rest of my life (so far) I continued questioning, and I see why I was kicked out.

I am still asking a lot a questions too.
But I am a Christian.

Originally posted by sonship
I am still asking a lot a questions too.
But I am a Christian.

Your head down ears back monologues regurgitating your torturer god mythology and doctrine sometimes make you seem like the antithesis of genuine curiosity.

Originally posted by sonship
I am still asking a lot a questions too.

sonship, you are indoctrinated as they come. You aren't asking the right questions. Bible bible bible, you say. Why the Bible, I say.

Originally posted by apathist
sonship, you are indoctrinated as they come. You aren't asking the right questions. Bible bible bible, you say. Why the Bible, I say.

No. I have some real good questions.
But with those who are possibly on the verge of coming to Christ, I would not easily share them.

But you do have to see that there is a peace which passes all understanding. You see the real deepest answer is ..... a PERSON.

I say what a man really needs is a PERSON.

The last Adam became a life giving Spirit. Now no one can really explain exactly what the Spirit of God is. But we know that He is a Person, an unusual and supernatural one, but a Person.

What a Person Jesus is !!

Interesting decision by sonship to offer an I-am-as-indoctrinated-as-they-come style response to someone suggesting that he is "as indoctrinated as they come",

Originally posted by sonship...
But you do have to see that there is a peace which passes all understanding. You see the real deepest answer is ..... a PERSON.
...

Bhudda.

The laughing fat man. An elite who surrendered his estate to chase nirvana.

Or something.

Originally posted by apathist
Was kicked out of sunday school because wouldn't stop asking questions.


For the rest of my life (so far) I continued questioning, and I see why I was kicked out.

Asking questions is a good thing, I left my cult because I started asking questions.

Originally posted by FMF
Interesting decision by sonship to offer an I-am-as-indoctrinated-as-they-come style response to someone suggesting that he is "as indoctrinated as they come",

So you think that everyone who does not share your views is indoctrinated?

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
So you think that everyone who does not share your views is indoctrinated?

I think anyone who recites doctrine and little else needs to have been indoctrinated in order to be able to do it.

Originally posted by FMF
I think anyone who recites doctrine and little else needs to have been indoctrinated in order to be able to do it.

Are you trying to say that anyone who accepts and quotes the Bible does so without having given it critical thought?

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
Are you trying to say that anyone who accepts the Bible does so without having given it critical thought?

No, I've said nothing of the sort. But I do think people who have become indoctrinated often behave as if they have forfeited the capacity to listen to, or even acknowledge, ideas that fall outside the remit of those doctrines they happen to have internalized, let alone to exercise critical thought.

Originally posted by apathist
Was kicked out of sunday school because wouldn't stop asking questions.


For the rest of my life (so far) I continued questioning, and I see why I was kicked out.

Two questions....

Why did you feel the need to start this self centered thread?

Why would anyone care what you believe?

Originally posted by FMF
No, I've said nothing of the sort. But I do think people who have become indoctrinated often behave as if they have forfeited the capacity to listen to, or even acknowledge, ideas that fall outside the remit of those doctrines they happen to have internalized, let alone to exercise critical thought.

To me it also seems like you have forfeited the capacity to listen to or even acknowledge Christians ideas, which coincidentally happen to fall outside the remit of of the ideas that you have internalized.