froggerlover
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My name is Sarah. I lost my faith when I was about 12. My mom would bring my brother and I to church every Sunday, for a while, I was so happy and giddy, but you know how little kids are, they love to learn new things, and experience new things. I went to Sunday school all the way up until I was about 14 because my mom made me.
I asked my mom when I was 12, why do we have to go to church? Whats the reason? She told me, "because we have to". Ever since that day, I refused to go to church. I'm a
"seer, not a believer". There is no physical evidence that God exists, what more reason is there to go to church. I'm learning nothing, and at the same time, so uncomfortable. I was uncomfortable because I didn't believe what they were saying, I was uncomfortable because I knew that I was being fed lies, and so was everybody else.
Up until my second year in Community College, when I took a religion course did I not think about any type of religion. I thought they were all ********* (excuse my french). I once read a quote and that stuck in the back of my mind eversince that day, "You feed a man a fish, you curb his hunger for a day. You teach the man how to fish, you help him feedhimself for life." (Or something that like, and it had to pertain to religion.) I thought it was all poohey. So that was my mentality for the longest time.
The I realized that there was so much more than just "Christianity" - I really didn't know that there was more than just this. So that class opened up my mind, I am now tolerant of every religion, still a little hesitant of Christianity. Now, I have an eclectic theory of really a lot of different religions, do I believe that there are gods, yes and no. gods as in "one true god", no. Gods as in more than just one true god, but a multiple of many different gods representing many different things, yes.
I asked my mom when I was 12, why do we have to go to church? Whats the reason? She told me, "because we have to". Ever since that day, I refused to go to church. I'm a
"seer, not a believer". There is no physical evidence that God exists, what more reason is there to go to church. I'm learning nothing, and at the same time, so uncomfortable. I was uncomfortable because I didn't believe what they were saying, I was uncomfortable because I knew that I was being fed lies, and so was everybody else.
Up until my second year in Community College, when I took a religion course did I not think about any type of religion. I thought they were all ********* (excuse my french). I once read a quote and that stuck in the back of my mind eversince that day, "You feed a man a fish, you curb his hunger for a day. You teach the man how to fish, you help him feedhimself for life." (Or something that like, and it had to pertain to religion.) I thought it was all poohey. So that was my mentality for the longest time.
The I realized that there was so much more than just "Christianity" - I really didn't know that there was more than just this. So that class opened up my mind, I am now tolerant of every religion, still a little hesitant of Christianity. Now, I have an eclectic theory of really a lot of different religions, do I believe that there are gods, yes and no. gods as in "one true god", no. Gods as in more than just one true god, but a multiple of many different gods representing many different things, yes.
