Religion

[cordeliasmarz]

I know this is a touchy subject with pretty much anyone so feel free to ignore me on this.

I'm not an insulting person at ALL, hate arguments, wish everyone would just get along.. all that good stuff.

So I don't want to upset anyone and although I'm certainly not going to say anything that I would call "offensive", I just feel the need to warn

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[self_sustaining]

I figured I'd throw in a different point of view on all of this. Sorry if I offend or confuse anyone.

I've spent my whole life as a Christian who was doing it because that's what I was told to be doing. Freshman year of college I completely abandoned it. And, looking back at last year, my life sucked. I was depressed and angry all the time and I was a horrible person to my friends. I treated people like shit.

This past August I met by best friend, and because of him I started going back to church again. Still operating on the "I'm just doing this because it's what's expected" theory. But, last month, something finally clicked.

I don't pretend like I have all of the answers. But I believe in God because I can see what he's done in my life. I can feel it. I'm a completely different person than I was last year. A while some of that can be attributed to the people I'm around, I don't think that's it. God is real for me; a living god that loves me and deserves my love back for all the shit we do down here that's supposed to be "good".

I think that most of what people see and attribute to Christianity is not what the people who follow Christ are actually like. But then again, I'm also part of a pretty liberal group of Christians.

I'll stop now because I don't want to be that girl.

[cordeliasmarz]

Oh thank you for sharing ^_^

I really get that
Having something to believe in really gives you hope and without that you feel lost
I felt like that for a long time as I was ill and I really felt like there was no-one out there to help me
I wanted to give up
Then I sort of realised I didn't have to actually put myself in a group and call myself "Christian" or anything, I can just have a vague hope and wish for someone out there to help me and that faith will get me through it

I'm so glad you've found something that makes you happy
So long as you have something that makes you happy that doesn't hurt anyone I think that's all you need really ^_^

Thank you again - all these opinions are really great and helpful in figuring it out for myself