How did you come to the conclusion of being Agnostic? - Page 3

neverforever · 11-13-2007, 08:54 AM

Well my story is similar to a few of these in ways but different to.
I grew up a methodist Christian always going to church every Sunday. In high school I just stopped going to church no real reason. Got a job where my boss was very religious but i had a coworker that was atheist and me and her were good friends and my boss would always try to push Christianity on everyone but i started thinking about some of the stuff she said and started reasoning it with my atheist friend and started thinking this really doesn't make much sense. And thats where im at now.

silent_enigma · 11-14-2007, 07:08 AM

The main thing that did it was reading and studying the (Christian) bible. I was a Christian for nearly a decade of my adulthood, and truly believed in creationism, the end of the world, all that crap. The thing that really pulled the card house down was the fact that there is no clear, consistent, and coherent doctrine of salvation in the bible.

And you'd think that'd be of primary primary importance in a magical god-made book!

Also the Christians I had spent the most time with illustrated most convincingly to me that there is no such thing as a holy spirit that resides in them and makes them less evil than everyone else.

There were also the usual de-faithing things in the bible such as: God commanding people to do evil things, and doing evil things himself. Demons being the supposed cause of various illnesses. Fruity prophets and goofy miracles. Etc.