is there any ex christians on here that have?

Question

turned there back on the religion..and relised the truth..that its a myth and con to control people's minds

i would like to know why you turned your back on the religion

chas chas please give the proof that you say there is?

Answer 1

I am an ex-ex-christian. I realized that I was wrong to leave, and went back.

Answer 2

I am an apostate Christian. I have turned my back on the religion due to its nature as a human organisation and the difficulties of communal manipulation of thought that it creates.

However, there is nothing wrong with myth in itself. I have heard it said that, if a lesson valuable to the individual is learned, a fiction is as useful as a fact, and I think there is some value in that. Many people find meaning in made up stories, because what is ultimately important is not the factual validity but how we choose to take on board what is said. Whether or not Jesus was real, his character has a lot to teach us about the human condition.

That said, I feel that Christianity, as with the other Abrahamic religions, place their weight on the factual necessities of their myths rather than the lessons to be learned. To them, Jesus was not a man or character who gave us an understanding of how people can work together and introduced us to a new way of looking at the world but rather a sacrificial figure to be flaunted as a necessarily real and historical entity that instantiated human transcendance. In doing so, they miss so much of the value of the man, which does make me a little sad.

Answer 3

I was born into the Catholic religion, and "saved" by the Christian Church at 12. At 17, I became an Atheist.

I got tired of worshiping something that didn't exist. I was always a skeptic, but now, I'm a true non-believer.

It's not that I just didn't believe though, I just disliked everything that both religions tried to force feed me. I'm a very far Left Democrat that supports gay rights, I believe in Pro-Choice, I think that there is no right religion, I believe in Evolution and science, and I can't put my "faith" in a book and an imaginary character.

I'm not trying to insult anyone's belief. I think you have every right to believe what you want. I just think that if you want respect from me (an Atheist) you should give me the respect of letting me choose NOT to believe.

Answer 4

Well, it wasn't one thing. I consider it a journey that Ive been on for many years. I decided that what I wanted was the truth, regardless of what that meant to my traditions and upbringing. The more I dug and studied and researched, the more I found the "christian" stories to be false and found the entire religion to be a huge mess of adopted customs and myths. I think you have to be mentally strong enough to peel back all the layers of lies that have been pieced together over hundreds of years. It was a process though, didn't just happen overnight. :)

Answer 5

I'm an ex Christian. First the people's reactions to certain questions I had got me thinking. I began studying the bible and everything that has happened in the name of religion. I then looked at cults and their methods and saw that they are not all too different from widely accepted religions.

Answer 6

For being told at five years old that my best friend couldn't be my friend anymore because I didn't go to church with him.

For my very own relatives stealing from me when I was 11 and lying about it together.

For being fired from a job because I didn't believe in God.

For all the Christians who have called my home, rang my doorbell or harassed me in a parking lot.

For the justification of killing countless millions of people in the name of God, and for rationalizing all the horrible things people are capable of in the name of forgiveness.

For seeking a greater truth than the one offered by the bible and finding it, and for seeing the immeasurable ignorance of those that continue to do all the above and still claim they are right.

Answer 7

"I was once a born-again Christian. Now I believe it’s all rubbish!"

When a person maintains that he was once a Christian, but came to his senses, he is saying that he once knew the Lord (see John 17:3)." If he didn’t know the Lord, he was therefore never a Christian (1 John 5:11–13,20).

The Bible speaks of false conversion, in which a "stony ground" hearer receives the Word with joy and gladness. Then, in a time of tribulation, temptation, and persecution, falls away. Open to reason, take yourself through the Ten Commandments,and into the message of the cross, and the necessity of repentance and faith in the Savior.

Answer 8

I left Christianity, but not for the reasons you posit.

My Dad was a preacher in an evangelical church, though he left the ministry when I was quite young. The family then attended services at Presbyterian churches for a while, then United Methodist church services. I was raised on bible stories, and I had good theological discussions with my Dad and with the ministers in the churches we attended.

I left Christianity because if left me - with an empty feeling.

There was in me a sense of the sacred that had nothing to do with the bible or with what I was taught in church school.

It had to do with the sacredness of life itelf, in all its manifestations; that it was sacred not because of who I might think "created" it, but in and of itself.

And that's why I'm a happy and peaceful Pagan (small-w wiccan) today, and for the past 25 years.

I don't think that Christianity is without value - but it's not for me.

Answer 9

Up until 4th grade, I tried to believe, but there were just too many contradictions and nonsense. By 4th grade, I realized it was BS.

In my late teens, when nothing was going right in my life, I tried to find meaning there again. But I couldn't. All the BS still stood out too glaringly.

Answer 10

Education, Education, Education.

Answer 11

i am an ex catholic and what is religion but myth,a legend written in a book by an unknown author