I just wanted to acknowledge your post, and also to tell you that I am glad that you have something that can help bring you peace of mind. I do relate to mental health issues, in fact, if people are honest, I think there are many of us out here that can relate. I am also glad you have someone...
I liked what you wrote under your username "I'm sick of it all", I think that was it, or close. That's how I feel. I don't even want to look at religions after my experiences in the christian beliefs/church. I'm sick of it, and so, I avoid the others as well. I don't have any interest in...
I think it is all our responsibilities, no passing the buck. It's like trying to fix an infection with a band-aid, you have to start from the source, clean it out, otherwise nothing gets healed. And commissioners and cops aren't the source.
This is engrained in our history. The ownership...
I think it's good how that all works for you guys. I don't know, because I am not that well read on the subject, but I imagine England also has a pretty, good handle on "gun-runners", I mean, keeping them out, and illegal gun, sales. If America could first resolve that issue, then we could...
America has always been armed, and I am not sure on Britain/UK. So the problem I see, is that yes, we can dis-arm our police, but how do we make sure the "bad guys" are unarmed as well? If someone has a feasible plan for that let's have it.
Thanks so much, I am glad I am here:)
I started asking questions a long time before I finally gave up on the christianity thing. At this point, I have no desire to learn about "any" other religion because I don't want to ever go through that again. So I say I am open, but I have to be honest...
Ditto, on all of this, it was like reading something I could have written. You hit on so many things I have experienced, thought, and wondered about god and religion. Someone real, flesh and blood, not just intellectual garble typed on a page. For the first time since I left the church, and...
I'm open to it since I fell away from the christian faith about a year ago. I feel good about not being so narrow-minded and thinking (geesh) I was one of the chosen few, what crap that was:( Well, at least I now believe I have woken up to a point of actually finding the truth, or at least...
I relate to much of what you wrote, although I have no experience with other religions. I feel things have opened up to me now though, since I am no longer so narrow-minded, which I believe I was when only focusing on the bible as the only, true word.
Some might laugh, but I just got finished...
That has a lot to do with my "falling away" from the faith in the bible being the inerant word of god. At least the way I was taught in the church (I went to non-denoms, not the holy roller types) was that the bible was THE WORD of God, written by people inspired by the holy spirit. To explain...
That isn't what I meant, I can see I could have said it better. The christians I've met, the bible I've read, and the sermons I've heard, taught me about God Ok, so I mean, now, I am questioning those teachings, have no faith in the teaching now, as I did before. In the future, as well as now...
This is hard for me to argue with, I mean I can't. I can't say it is not true either, all of it, because I don't know for a fact. I do know many, moral people (what I consider good morals anyway) who have nothing to do with christianity, in the bible sense of christianity, followers of christ...
Actually, christians "do" make this claim, but they say it "by Christ" we are perfect, because of what he did. They also say they work towards perfection (my words but heard it preached), and the bible does say "be perfect" :
Matthew 5:48
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is...
That reminds me of something I read recently about the man that "invented" the term Aerobics. He now says he was wrong about the whole concept. You can google it, but then again, what to believe. I'm with Nakosis on "not" believing it because someone says so.
No use to get upset, there is no changing some folks minds, just the same as yours or my mind might not be changed. I know it is frustrating, I experience it every day, but people believe what they believe, and even with all someone has to offer as evidence, some will not agree.
It's weird...