2007-01-06 20:05:14 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
SO liberated!! I had been searching for so long i different churches and fell prey to christian science and other such woo.
It was perhaps the most freeing moment of my life.
2007-01-06 20:09:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Liberated.
It made me have a thirst for knowledge unlike anything I had ever felt before. When I was a Christian I never thought too much about things. After throwing off the shackles of religion, I began learning about anything and everything and really enjoying it. The world started to make sense.
I began to cherish every moment I was alive. I was dead while I was in the chains. My mind was stuck in a mental box that fear had trapped me in. When I stepped outside of the box the whole world was waiting on me and I saw it for the first time. Talk about being born again?
"It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at the world not as a child, but as an adult. I see what's bad and it's really bad. But I also see what is beautiful, what is wonderful. And I feel so deeply appreciative that I am alive. How dare the religious use the term 'born again.' That truly describes freethinkers who've thrown off the shackles of religion so much better! ” - Julia Sweeney (Pat from Saturday Night Live)
"A believer is a bird in a cage, a free-thinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing." [Robert G. Ingersoll, "Individuality", 1873]
And that's how I felt. It was very profound. I don't feel these words have done it justice. I was depressed and even suicidal when I was in the chains. Becoming a freethinker might have saved my life.
2007-01-07 04:27:56 · answer #2 · answered by AiW 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It didn't, cause I had already suspected something was funny. So the feeling was suspicion and it preceded the realization; but about a year later it gave me the feeling that I wanted to do a certain book report for a class assignment, knowing that it would piss of Mr. Rawlins who was our biology teacher, and believed in God excessively; and was not amused when anyone attempted to say that rudimentary hind limbs appear briefly in the embryos of whales and dolphins, and furthermore he knew that Jesus would not be amused either... Why do you ask?
2007-01-07 04:45:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find a problem with one of the other answers. Christians are allowed to be free thinkers if they wish. Most choose not to be, so they force others not to be as well.
As a true atheist, one must believe that all forms of spirituality are false. Other forms of spirituality may satisfy, but none can offer salvation from the entanglemants of the world, only temporary escape. Even a buddhist will tell you that you cannot be free of the world until you reach nirvanah, and if they are incorrect on reincarnation, then nirvanah is an impossible goal. while taoists and buddhists and hindus may be released from worldly attatchments, they are still bound by the laws of death and decay, and therefore are subject to the consequences thereafter.
I as a christian have the liberty in christ to determine what parts of buddhism are in fact part of the truth that makes up the entirety of the cosmos. as long as one believe that Christ is the Son of God and that it was his life death and resurrection that is freedom for humanity's eternal souls, then one is free to adopt any ideas that are congruent with the Life of Christ and Spirit of Christ that is within us. When you encounter a way of life that is not congruent with that, you will notice that it does not bring peace or happiness to your life, and thus you recognize that it is a sin, and not part of your new life in him,
I may have said too much...
2007-01-07 04:43:00 · answer #4 · answered by Justin M 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think this question is not meant for me, since I never realized that. But I'm such a sucker for questions, I just keep answering. What I have realized is that it all comes to us at different times and we are all where we are supposed to be .... No one is at a disadvantage, and we are all equal among ourselves. I just love that!
2007-01-07 04:09:18 · answer #5 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depressed about wasting so many years believing in the Big Cosmic Muffin.
2007-01-07 04:37:56 · answer #6 · answered by weary0918 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Content.
2007-01-07 04:08:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Relieved
2007-01-07 04:06:34 · answer #8 · answered by Arnold 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I felt proud of myself. I was only 8 and thought I was the only atheist in the world
2007-01-07 04:11:02 · answer #9 · answered by Born again atheist 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ticklish!
2007-01-07 04:06:21 · answer #10 · answered by Cthullu 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋