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?

[pshaa.shauna]

I'm agonistic. The only reason I'm not athiest is because everyonce in a while, this thought while come o my head about there being something out there. Not a God persay, but something. I feel like I beleive it, but after a half-hour or so it goes away. I'm pretty sure ot's a false-belief. Like when you find out Santa isn't real, and you liked the thought so much you still beleived he was real, even though he wasn't and you knew it.

If there is something out there, there is no possible way we can know. Like mipadi has said before, the things that people believed so strongly in before, have now been written into myths. The same will come soon to the religions of today.