growing up Christian Options

[eunie03]

I've lived a pretty dogmatic life. I haven't known much else. I started talking to a friend who's a philosophy major, and he up and tells me he thinks we just disappear after this. We have no soul, no spirit. We just live and die, and decompose. Like we never existed.

It's kind of pointless then. To live a Christian life.

I've been trying to get away from it since the end of high school. Christianity, I mean. But no matter how hard I try, it's so hard for me to believe that this is it. That there's no heaven or hell. Then I think about all the years I've wasted going to church and essentially just talking to the ceiling in my room.

It's just as easy for me to doubt it all.

Anyway, the point of my topic. If you've grown up in a church, you've probably noticed how much stronger the fire is in the newborn Christian. Growing up with it... it just makes everything mundane and routine. Have you ever denounced Christianity, just so you can have that newborn fire? Do you think it's a sin? To want to experience the world and gain some sort of insight before blindly following the faith?

[WindSorcerous]

I was baptized, but when I turned three, my parents converted to Buddhism. My dad was too looking for a way out and he found it through this religion. I'm Buddhist too, (chosen my myself) and it has cleared up many things for me.

Life is about learning lessons and becoming a good person. There are many places after death...life has a purpose. Well, that's what I believe.

I believe in karma, and reincarnation...
So basically what goes around comes around whether it was from this life or past ones and everyone has the power inside them to move out of reincarnation on onto a higher level....(nirvana, or a different state of existence). So basically, everyone wins eventually...there is no permanent hell either. Everything is a lesson and an experience to take note of.

. through . my . eyes .

[eunie03]

Life is about learning lessons and becoming a good person. There are many places after death...life has a purpose. Well, that's what I believe.

I wish I could believe that, too.
It's a good philosophy... great, even. But I'm stuck with this... I guess that was the point of my post. I can't see from any other angle. Even if the other angle sounds so perfect.