If so, what religion was it and what was your initial or main reason for leaving?
2006-08-20 16:25:01 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I left christianity when I was 20. My main reason was because I couldn't believe in a god that could damn people for all eternity when the ability to choose is amazingly daughting. I studied hypnosis and realized how conditioned people were beginning at childhood and how difficult it is to move beyond this before you could ever discover anything supposidly better. Also I disagreed with Christianity being the only way to god as I could see truth in other paths as well as seeing other beings more in tune with Jesus' message than many of my friends ever were. The final straw was when I realized the Jesus message had been tampered with as I found hints at a wisdom teaching that were never expounded on enough to a point where people could actually practice this wisdom. I realized the book of revelation shouldn't be in the bible and that upon telling my christian friends and relaying it to them they still were so ardulently solid in their notions of christ that even though they agreed with my observations they still did nothing to change because Christianity is fear based and not based on love like many would like to believe. It's also not intellectually stimulating but that was only a minor problem.
* Some claim that they are christian out of love, but as for my own experience I have never felt these people were sincere.
2006-08-20 16:36:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was a Catholic at one time. I left it for many of reasons. I was not comfortable there. They say one thing and do another. They worship others besides their God and then deny it. They excommunicate people because of their beliefs. The kick teachers out of their schools because they aren't Catholic. When you go to church you have to smell all that perfume like you were in some french wh0re house or something. There were many more reasons but these are a few of them.
2006-08-20 23:38:16 · answer #2 · answered by Mawyemsekhmet 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was formerly Catholic, until I learned by actually picking up a bible and reading it for myself, that they don't have one clue what's actually going on in the Holy Bible! Not ONCE does the word ROSARY show up, Mary is escalated to a place where Christ would never want her to be (as well as Mary herself).
Once I learned that it was just a man made religion full of traditions, based on picking and choosing scriptures out of the bible to use on people...I said "Peace out guys....I'm outta here."
Next thing you know, this religious bunch starts molesting alter boys, taking up more offerings....y'know...like we should be shocked? I got involved big time with Catholicism, because I never even picked up the bible to read it. I took the word of the so called "priests" what God was, how he worked, etc. and never even thought to read it.
If anyone's reading this who's catholic....please check it out... Christ's body is not the wafer you're given each sunday. Not because I'm saying so on an internet website...my words don't mean a hill of beans.....but because in God's word, the holy bible, where it counts is where you'll find your answers.
Now, I'm the same "religion" Christ is. He had no religion. Christ wasn't Catholic, Baptist, Pentacostal, Charasmatic, etc. He is the Son of God, and I'm a regular sinner, freed from the debt of all my sins by his blood atonement on the cross. And the moment you trust him...no matter WHO you are, WHAT you've done, and WHAT "religion", "organization", "group", "club" or "social structure" you're in..you'll be freed too!
2006-08-20 23:45:59 · answer #3 · answered by The (1Cor.15:1-4) Ambassador 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Always Christian, but I did leave the more charismatic/pentecostal churches. There were some that I did feel the Spirit in, but some just got way out of hand with the speaking in tongues. It was chaos and I don't think there's supposed to be chaos in the Spirit. Also, I was told that I had to speak in tongues in order to have the Spirit in me. I don't believe that.
2006-08-20 23:37:05 · answer #4 · answered by gracefully_saved 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i grew up in a fundamentalist christian sect. there were bans on everything from never cutting your hair, dancing, talking to the opposite sex, going anywhere that wasn't sanctioned by the church, undsoweiter ad auseum etc.
i left to have some fun.
2006-08-20 23:38:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was raised Catholic, looked into Wicca briefly, then decided that the entire idea of a god or goddess just seemed foolish to me (atheist).
2006-08-21 00:12:07 · answer #6 · answered by Bree 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was raised Catholic and left the church 25 years ago. I left because I just wasn't fulfilled. I had difficulty believing the things the church taught.
I have never regretted my decision.
Blessings )O(
2006-08-20 23:31:59 · answer #7 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm a former Buddhist and I just found the nihilism of it too depressing.
2006-08-20 23:32:01 · answer #8 · answered by Dysthymia 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
10 years ago I was looking into islam, where I met alot of
dangerous black men it was crazy, I think they wanted to start
a race war or something they were like black nazis man crazy
2006-08-20 23:33:43 · answer #9 · answered by Israel G 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm a former Christian. It just wasn't working for me.
2006-08-20 23:30:36 · answer #10 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋