I'm actually a bit more calmer about this now, since I talked to someone else about it today. I just get very pissed off that every conversation that I have with my mother turns into "The end times are near!!" Don't believe me? Ask Brian.
You make a lot of good points and a lot of sense. I've never heard the part that no church will be around to see the end of times (maybe conviently left out, I don't know). You actually sound like an awesome Christian to talk to about these sort of things. My major deal is that I haven't had a lot of people like you to talk to until I was 16 years old and at LSMSA, and that brought up a whole nother set of problems, religiously. But I try to not bash Christianity. I'm actually working on converting to Catholicism.
When I'm calmer, and more rational, and more willing to believe in things, I think of hell more of as an absence of god, not fire and brimstone. A place without god is enough. No fire and brimstone needed, thank you. But that's when I'm more willing to accept the full scope of things. I try to not let people and things get to me. It's a very trying thing to work on everyday. Sometimes, I just lash out, thus is why I have an LJ. B/c I can't tell most people how I feel without completely alienating them. I didn't even want to go on the God rant, but then I remembered that an LJ is for posting my feelings, then hoping to have someone talk me down (although I do have a lovely fiance who deals with this everyday of his life, what a saint he is).
I really wish you could meet me in real life. I'm not the psycho I appear to be on here. I'm actually pretty tame for a college student. The only person who really sees me rant these days is Brian, and he's very good at dealing with it. Everything else gets pored onto this LJ.
You make a lot of good points and a lot of sense. I've never heard the part that no church will be around to see the end of times (maybe conviently left out, I don't know). You actually sound like an awesome Christian to talk to about these sort of things. My major deal is that I haven't had a lot of people like you to talk to until I was 16 years old and at LSMSA, and that brought up a whole nother set of problems, religiously. But I try to not bash Christianity. I'm actually working on converting to Catholicism.
When I'm calmer, and more rational, and more willing to believe in things, I think of hell more of as an absence of god, not fire and brimstone. A place without god is enough. No fire and brimstone needed, thank you. But that's when I'm more willing to accept the full scope of things. I try to not let people and things get to me. It's a very trying thing to work on everyday. Sometimes, I just lash out, thus is why I have an LJ. B/c I can't tell most people how I feel without completely alienating them. I didn't even want to go on the God rant, but then I remembered that an LJ is for posting my feelings, then hoping to have someone talk me down (although I do have a lovely fiance who deals with this everyday of his life, what a saint he is).
I really wish you could meet me in real life. I'm not the psycho I appear to be on here. I'm actually pretty tame for a college student. The only person who really sees me rant these days is Brian, and he's very good at dealing with it. Everything else gets pored onto this LJ.
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