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?

[*disco infiltrator*]

Just because you are raised Christian doesn't mean that's what you must believe. You can't control what you believe. You just think whatever is most reasonable to you. Tracy (D1SMANTLED) was raised strictly Roman Catholic and I explained why I was atheist, and she started reconsidering.

I, like your friend, believe that when we die, our body rots in the ground and that's about it. I don't believe in the afterlife and I don't believe in heaven and hell. If it ends up that I'm wrong and I go to hell simply because I don't believe in God, then oh well. I'm not too concerned with it since I'm pretty set in my ideas. I think it's kinda unfair though..but that's a different subject.

I'm an atheist because I need answers. I need science and logic and something I can see to believe in something. No one has ever been able to tell me where God came from and how he supposedly created everything. There are no answers in deities for me. With the Big Bang theory and evolution, it's something natural that happens. Stars explode in the universe all the time. It's logical to think a gigantic explosion could have happened once with a gigantic star. Why not? It just seems so much more logical...

So anyway..you're not stuck with what your parents tell you to believe, and you don't necessarily need to let them know what you believe (if they'd be dissappointed or something). Believe whatever you believe. No one should make you practice something you don't believe in. Just be who you are and believe what makes more sense to you.

[*kryogenix*]

I'm an atheist because I need answers. I need science and logic and something I can see to believe in something. No one has ever been able to tell me where God came from and how he supposedly created everything. There are no answers in deities for me. With the Big Bang theory and evolution, it's something natural that happens. Stars explode in the universe all the time. It's logical to think a gigantic explosion could have happened once with a gigantic star. Why not? It just seems so much more logical...[/font]

It seems logical to me that God created life. Science has done more to disprove itself than to disprove the Bible. I haven't been introduced facts that made the heterotroph hypothesis the definitive reason for life on this planet. But I do believe that God created life on this planet. Problem is, how do I know God exists? Easy. I talk to him every night.

[*mzkandi*]

It seems logical to me that God created life. Science has done more to disprove itself than to disprove the Bible. I haven't been introduced facts that made the heterotroph hypothesis the definitive reason for life on this planet. But I do believe that God created life on this planet. Problem is, how do I know God exists? Easy. I talk to him every night.

ohhhhh...wow. I havent posted in this thread because I find it hard to express my religious beliefs and the reasons I believe in God to other people that dont share my faith and you've expressed the way I feel about this issue so perfectly. *speechless*