... and conflict I see on the new s [from the Iraq war to the conflicts with Israel and Palestine to the myriad of Social problems Americans are going through,unlike other secular industrialized nations] are ...
I started having doubts when I was relatively young, but never really questioned the "god issue" until high-school. In college I documented myself about this, read quite a bit and before I knew it I was ...
... It occurred to me that I could not remember ever having met someone who was, as far as I could tell, non-Christian. But I knew there were other faiths in the world and I knew those believers were every ...
... I tried out a handful of churches in a new city. Each seemed worse than the previous, and I became more and more disenchanted. I finally came up with my own little quote that I used to answer friends and ...
... foot in a c of g again. Other than a couple funerals i have kept that vow. I took a sidelong look at Buddhism and new age, but nothing really took, and during my illness and recovery I decided I honestly ...
... his left hand never formed, it looks like a small dolphin flipper. Supposedly we have "Free Will" - but I assure you, my new phew didn't choose to be born with a flipper hand, and if he'd had a choice, ...
... win?" I don't remember her answer, but I knew in that moment that there was no battle, there was no god, and that I should never, ever trust adults more than my own ability to reason. I was forced to go ...
... to end. He said the “Kingdom” – the end of this world and the start of God’s new regime – would happen in the lifetime of some of his listeners, and he wanted people to repent and give up attachments so ...
My family is for the most part very religious indeed. Some of them are missionaries, to my lasting regret. Naturally, I am ostracised because I'm not in the club. As an atheist, I can simply not imagine ...
... and gave it my all and found a ready-made new ‘family’ who accepted me warmly. Over the next 5 or 6 years I variously was ‘healed’ by Billy Graham, baptised by the Holy Spirit, spoke in tongues, gave ...
I don't believe in gods because... I am not stupid first and foremost. Secondly… I have never been lonely so I have not seen the need to have an imaginary person in my life. Thirdly… I have never been ...
... radically from the person we knew and loved. Her intellect, which had been subversively feisty for a woman of her era and upbringing, gave way to much more menial conversations. Her behavior changed ...
I wasn't just a Christian. I was a hardcore, Bible-thumping, tougue-speaking, over the top extreme Christian that other Christians wish they were like. I believed God literally talked to me. I believed ...
... born in the U.S. If your parents weren’t Christian, would you still be a Christian?” I knew the answer.. I just refused to say it. I pushed this event to the back of my mind for a while, but it was probably ...
... experience for me. We were taught that this was a necessary step to really be close to god and have him speak through you. I questioned religion more as I hit puberty and knew that my natural attraction ...
... and knew more than most young children generally know about reproduction and the natural way of things. The bible, and the people that were teaching me it, didn't seem to have the same comprehension of ...
... son ready for Church. He told me he didn't want to go because he didn't believe. This was a shock. I didn't realize that non belief was even an option. Every one I knew believed. It forced me to experiment ...
... had just always acted and talked as though they "knew " god existed, as though it were self-evident, and I, like a child that trusts his parents because he does not have the experience to know such things, ...
... my new found practice of t’ai chi ch’uan, though, I discovered Taoism. Now here was a religion I could get behind! No actual god as such, just a vague, undefined and nebulous “force of nature”. No dogma ...
... knew . It'd be nice to someday not have to worry about that. I'm a Web developer by trade, and otherwise fit fairly comfortably into the "soccer mom" mold: Two kids, happily married, blah blah blah. ...
