Former Christians; how do you feel about Christianity now?

Question

I was born and raised Catholic, and then decided to not label myself and chose to be a Christian. Now I don't believe in Christianity beliefs however I do believe in God. I have no problems with Christianity unless someone tries to tell me I'm wrong and that I'm going to hell. How do you feel about Christianity?

Answer 1

I was raised a Christian, and now I get very angry with people who tell me I am doomed, as I converted to Judaism. I guess I can get upset with alot of Christians and their ''my way is the only way''.

Answer 2

I'm a former Christian, now agnostic. I don't harbor any ill will towards people because of their choices and opinions, but some people can be hard to deal with. I can't ever tell my father how I feel because I know he would be so upset with himself for being a bad father - I went to church with my parents not too long ago and the sermon was about respecting your parents by continuing in the religion in which they raised you. I should've asked the pastor what about all the Hindus they send missionaries out to convert??

I also have a problem with the way some Christians think they know all about those who are non-Christians. My whole life I was raised to believe that the only reason someone wouldn't believe in God is because they're selfish and want to do whatever they want and etc. So untrue. And I've been told I must've never been a REAL Christian because I'm not anymore. Nope, sorry. I was as hardcore Bible-thumping of a Christian as there ever was. And I realized the world is much bigger than the Bible bubble.

So in a nutshell, I have no bad feelings about Christianity but I don't appreciate how some Christians are towards non-Christians. Heck, they'd probably have a few more converts if they could see what I see and change it a little.

Answer 3

I feel the same way towards all religions. If people want to practice a religion, I think that's fine. I have made a decision not to practice a religion. I respect an individuals right to practice one. Although I talk about religion on this web site, I do not at any other time. If someone question me about my beliefs, I tell them that I consider religion and beliefs systems to be a very private affair. I then shift the conversation to another topic. That ends it. And frankly, I feel that many religious people (and atheists as well) become absolutely obnoxious in their pursuit of spreading their belief or lack there of. After 40 years of being a Christian, I became an atheist.

Answer 4

As a catholic I do not follow Christianity as such any more, I do believe in God but that's about as far as I go, over the years I have found Christianity to be to contradictory, and really lacks common sense and logic in it's teachings. I simply do not believe in sin, hell, or heaven as Christianity teaches, our creator is simply that a creator of all things nothing more, when we are dead it is simply that dead never to return.

Answer 5

Christians today are generally a decent group of people, and I harbor no ill will towards the vast majority. The fundy fringes that seek to impose their ways on the rest of us are a different story.

I do not believe that Christianity as an institution, over the past 2,000 years, has been more positive than negative, when one adds up al lthe wrongs done in Christianity's name, but of course that's all academic unless we find a way to explore alternate universes. But I do not hold today's moderate, sane and caring Christians to blame for those who came before them.

Answer 6

The same as I do about any other religion. I personally believe all organized religions have bastardized the true intentions of spiritual texts and manipulated them into forms of control. While I have no problem with the followers of any religion, I do have a problem with the institutions themselves. I understand that the world is a scary place, and sometimes people just need a little more security than the world has to offer. I find mine in my own spiritual explorations and meditations. I read the texts of as many religions as possible and reflect on the inherent truths presented within. I think that religion is something best taken metaphorically, and then the truths become a little more liberating, as they make possible the coexisting truth of all religions.
All is one.
Before all things, was the Tao.
All things flow from the source, and to the source all things return.

:)

Answer 7

I used to be a very devout born-again Christian. I came to realize that it was cruel to women because it forbade abortion. Later I came to realize that Christianity had become hijacked by reactionary, vicious right-wing conservatives. I hate what they've done to Christianity. It used to be a mostly good religion (at least during most US history) that brought people a lot of comfort and encouraged them to be kind, but it's been twisted to support the subjugation of women, anti-science, a hatred of gays & support for a stupid and extremely ill-conceived war.

JESUS WOULD SLAP THE **** OUT OF YOU!!

Answer 8

i am grateful beyond words to "The Supreme Whatever" that i have managed to escape the Christian conditioning of my childhood. i read some of the questions and answers put forth by some of these Christians and shudder with revulsion remembering how i was just like them. when they mirror my past self i can barely restrain my contempt and disgust. i must admit, in all self honesty, that i often vent my shame and angst on those Christians who reveal to me my embarrassing past as a Fundy.

Answer 9

I feel exactly the way you do.

I could have easily written what you just wrote.

Glad to see that there are others out there who didn't fall for the judgmental punishing God nonsense.

Have you read any of the course in miracles.

It seems perfect for someone who extracted themselves from the christian mythology.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 10

I don't know about Christianity all i know is that Jesus is our lord and Saviour, That he died for our sins not just for Christians but for everyone and i don't believe in religion for i believe man made that not God. I believe that the Bible is Gods word and that every word in it is true and that Jesus does not want any to perish but all to be saved. Because he love us all the same.
May God bless you and keep you safe this Christmas and for many years to come Merry Christmas