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?

[Azn Kid from NY]

In terms of morality, I don't think of morals and ethics as something that is based completely on religion. I think that inherent in human nature one can find some basic moral principles. Why do I live morally? Why don't I go out and kill people when they anger me, or steal, or cheat, or lie excessively? Because I believe in being nice to people and leading as good a life as possible--not because I will be rewarded for it, but because it is simply the right thing to do. How moral is it, I ask, to live morally just because you expect a reward for it?

but u forget...all behavior in ANY animal had to do with its survival....

the early human probably worked independently or in small families and groups, maybe killed and ate other humans....but eventually, they got the idea that if they work in bigger numbers and cooperating WITHOUT KILLING, they can survive more easily...humans gathered in settlements that became villages, that became cities ect....

that idea that if they did not kill eachother and instead worked together to survive, was then imprinted and carried on into the nature and characteristics of present humans that we now call our "morals"....