Ex-Christians: Tell your story

[Whiterain]

I was raised Baptist Christian form childhood, sunday school and everything. My Parents thought that they were doing right for me, honest mistake.

I'm not going to go off on some monolithic rant about how much I hate monotheism in general.

I started by expanding my knowledge, at first mainly into Gnosticism, which I loved. It added a layer of understanding to physical and spiritual reality.

Why Gnosticism wasn't majorly accepted in Catholicism, I have no idea. First they denied it's amazing teachings then stupified it's followers in THE LAMEST spiritual teachings that come to mind. Then divine intervention, I just become enraged at this point.

Later through spiritual experience, learning of my ancestors, which started happening immediately, I was drawn into Norse mythology, almost as if the Viking Gods were helping me.



And they did.

- End.

Edit:

A freaking hate speech is what I got stored up. I try not to blame Christ and understand constantly. Why this, why that, where are the?!

 

[MissDiscerner]

Former Catholic here. The bad example gave by many priests and nuns and the scary doctrine made me jump out of the faith... and the doubts too; I became fed up with the patriarchal monotheism. More: I think the Christian god ignored me when I had a panic attack five years ago.

 

[MissDiscerner]

Christianity was tremendously great as a youth. Jesus was alive and God's power was present in so many ways. It was a beautiful and magical time.

Eventually....

Got older and things started coming out of the woodwork that caused considerable head scratching. Blimey that! Major discovery! One religion is no different than another, and no more different than anything else at it's core!

House of cards collapsed. Stain glass shattered into a zillion pieces, and chucked away the rose colored glasses.

Good run but had to go.

^This. Absolutely.

 

[jonathan180iq]

I've always been skeptical of fantastic claims, even as a little boy. When my friends were choosing Jesus and the Apostles, I was choosing King Kong and Godzilla. They seemed equally as likely to my young mind. Then, as I got older, I started wondering why EVERYONE around me was doing the church thing, so I gave in to peer pressure and tried that for a few years. I quickly gave up because it just seemed completely bizarre to me to sing, worship, and pray to an invisible sky man. Fast forward about 10 years and I met my first wife. She was a huge church nut so I diligently gave it my best shot for relationship's sake. People can only play house for so long before it bores them to absolute tears. So I let it go again, resolved to never even bother putting on the front again.

I know more about Christianity than I care to and nothing about it has ever seemed legitimate.