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My loss of faith
stinkywigfiddle Started conversation Aug 12, 2006
A conversation was started in a forum I frequent by a person who was a very devote Christian until he came upon some rough times and now he's doubting everything and lost his faith.
I use to have faith, when I was younger. Here is what I wrote in the thread:
I was raised by very Christian parents. Taught to believe that everything in the Bible is 100% true (except for Revelation, for some reason). And I did believe it for a while.
Nothing particularly drastic happened to make me lose faith. I think maybe I questioned everything too much, and I like to read about various theologies, and the history of the Bible.
It seemed to me that the creation story in Genesis was just like any other creation story. And it turns out the Bible isn't as directly inspired by God as I was led to believe. And as I began to form my own opinion on things, I disagreed with some of the Bible's teachings. It doesn't seem very fair to women, for one.
So now I don't really believe in Heaven or Hell. I'm not entirely convinced that there is a god. And I'm very cynical about pretty much everything.
Am I better off?
I dunno.
I can draw naked pictures without fear of God smiting me.
I had something else I was going to write about, but I guess it can wait.
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