Twelve Years of Service
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RE: Religion 02-27-2013, 08:33 PM
#55
I will believe in religion and care about the things that people preach about when it becomes "knowledge" and not "faith". In all honesty, I don't really care for religion unless members of said religion start moaning and preaching about: women having rights, gays, bisexuals, blacks or any other quality of a person. It's ridiculous.
Lets look at it in a logical sense:
You are choking in a restaurant, you have two choices.
1) Have someone pray for your survival
2) Have someone preform the Heimlich Maneuver
Which do you chose?
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Eleven Years of Service
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RE: Religion 03-10-2013, 11:04 PM
#58
I was raised in a Christian home, but for years, I was only going through the motions, without really being sincere. When others weren't around, I was doing all kinds of immoral things, many of which I'm still too ashamed to talk about.
However, God wasn't through with me. About a year ago, he brought a young woman into my life, and through her, he led me to see what a mess my life was. I turned my life back to Him, and since then, though it's been tough fighting through many of the addictions I picked up, I have been drawing closer to Him.
I know how people feel when they run across hypocrisy in Christians. Not only was I a hypocrite, but too many people with whom I regularly associated were also hypocritical Christians. If you struggle with accepting Christianity because of the hypocrites, just remember that no matter what religion you look at, there will always be hypocrites. Some are not as obvious as others, but they are still there. You must judge a religion by WHOM it is based on, not by WHO practices or claims to practice it.
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Twelve Years of Service
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RE: Religion 03-12-2013, 02:41 AM
#59
I'm non religious. I'll just say that the majority of religious people are playing pretend.
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Eleven Years of Service
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RE: Religion 03-12-2013, 02:49 AM
#60
I was raised Catholic (the religion being force-fed to me with a very big spoon) but I grew up with very unpleasant surroundings that made me question religion for a very long time. Since 9th grade, I'd decided that organized religions aren't really something I like looking at. The fact is that I believe in some higher power, just organized religions kinda anger me. Then there's the 'Your move atheists' meme that makes me want to facepalm until my forehead starts bleeding, and then a little after that so that I'm lodging chunks of bone into greymatter.
Religious people are fine, organized religion is fine, but you come to me and try to make me convert and I will chase you with a baseball bat.
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