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[craterchest]

Discovered this link after looking around on how to tell your parents you've dropped the religion they raised you on.

First of all, I don't know who wrote this, but it's a very adolescent response to someone who did just that. Dropping a philosophy or a belief that you were raised on and surrounded by during your whole developmental period is not

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[chibimaryn]

Reasons like yours are why I find Andy Stanley's series "Christian" so awesome. Week two really stood out to me, though I think they're all excellent: http://www.buckheadchurch.org//messages/christian/part-2 Definitely worth a watch

[craterchest]

I'll check out link this weekend!

It's nice to still see Christians like you keeping the faith and just being good neighbors to their fellow man and the like. That's probably the only reason I still come back to it from time to time.

[justatailor]

i grew up a catholic in a very ethnically & religiously diverse state where my family were among the very few republicans. and when i say republicans, i mean the traditional view--people with money that want to keep their money (even though they didn't really have money at the time it was never really a religious issue like the current republicans). i was not "raised in the church" and my only ties to catholocism/christianity were my ultra-religious grandma and my mom/step-dad.

for most of high school, while i considered myself a republican (fiscal, not social), i would say i was actually on the agnostic end of the religious spectrum. except when a wild baptist came along and i felt i needed to defend catholocism (it was very jarring when i moved down south, for someone that moved from a town that was founded to be utopia). i never understood discriminating against people just because a book told you to and i always felt like it was important to have a personal relationship with god rather than proselytize to others. also i was super

[craterchest]

I had similar questions when I started to lose my religion. For me it was "Why do we pray to God if He already has a plan for us? Is there really a point to have Satan around if God is always in charge, which means it's Him that's setting up 'trials' for us, or allowing humans to act horribly to one another?" And I just never got the answers from anyone that were supposedly "in the know," and that seemed to kind of snatch the veil away, so to speak. I realized a lot of ministers are just as clueless as everyone else is about some aspects of Christianity.

I feel like religion in general is more than just dealing with the fact that you're going to bite it one day, and that'll be the end of you. A lot of it is how to live.

But yeah, I'd just like to ask those North Carolinians who were for Amendment 1 to tell me how many gays they brought to Jesus by passing this law.

Also "a wild baptist came along" makes me think of Pokemon.

[justatailor]

a wild baptist uses proselytize! it's not very effective

[craterchest]

What I mean by "how to live" is not specifically a moral thing when it comes down to it. More like just an organized form of living.

I don't believe that religious people are any more moral than nonreligious people, but being a part of a religion is essentially adhering to a certain lifestyle with guidelines and rules (well, in theory at least). It's just more organized I feel. But I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing - just different.