2007-02-27 06:19:52 · 15 answers · asked by Brady S 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, but if I am objective, crappy things happened when I was a Christian too.
I don't pin my "belief system" on "did god kill my puppy"
2007-02-27 06:22:58 · answer #1 · answered by Laptop Jesus 2.0 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I doubt I'm so improtant that my stopping the practice of Christianity had any impact on crappy things starting to happen to them. If they were so blessed by God why would he let crappy things happen to the Christians just because I seperated from them?
2007-02-27 06:28:38 · answer #2 · answered by Murazor 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. For me, it was the other way around.
I spent 17 long years in a church that told me daily that, as a woman, I am a second class citizen and that I needed to learn my place. On top of that I was told regularly that I was nothing. No matter how fervently I prayed that my life would improve, nothing ever happen to change my circumstances. Then I changed my own circumstances...
When I finally broke away from christianity I felt free and important in this world for the first time in my life.
I have NEVER looked back.
Peace
Edit: I got that, Mayor McCheese, Nice work...
2007-02-27 06:28:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
NOPE, none of these have ever happened to me. Believe is a gift and apparently those who don't believe they have not received this gift. If you have had crappy things going on with your life just because you stopped been Christian, this sounds like a curse. I think that "god" would not do that just because you do not want to be Christian anymore. But if this things happen to you as you describe, this might be time for help.
2007-02-27 06:25:41 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Actually when I left Christianity good things started happening!
2007-02-27 06:23:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Life got better for me after I stopped being Christian. I don't attribute it to not being religious necessarily but to the changes I was making in my life at the time.
2007-02-27 06:26:41 · answer #6 · answered by Zen Pirate 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was a christian for 15 years.... I have never been happier in my life now that I'm a pagan. it's like all the gilt I had at chruch is GONE! I never feel the urge to push my belifs on others. I feel free!
2007-02-27 06:27:15 · answer #7 · answered by Shinigami's child 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
i was super depressed as a christian because religion was one way and you had to live up to other ppl's expectations. once i got out of that mess i felt so much better and started enjoying life for the first time. no one's life is easy but at least when you listen to regular pop music you aren't made to feel like you are going to hell for doing so.
2007-02-27 06:25:27 · answer #8 · answered by lookingforanswersandquestions 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
other way. was a christian for 12 years, after i stopped practicing it, things got better, i stopped relying on another being for things.
2007-02-27 06:24:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
this is honest. i'm a Christian, although this is precisely attitudes like Fireball's - that "i pass to do notwithstanding i opt for" - that provide Christianity a foul call. Jesus became into all approximately understand, and His entire premise became into that one individual's "rights" end the place yet somebody else's initiate. on the different hand: "odd, groundless ideals" and "fanatical brainwashed weirdo" additionally exhibits a loss of understand. there is extra advantageous than adequate info to, if no longer "teach", then certainly exhibit that the existence of God is possibly, if no longer confident. The Bible has in no way BEEN disproved. each and all of the info that has been uncovered - particularly by utilising archaelogy - has complemented the Bible very precise. there is not any longer something incorrect with exhibiting this to others. Telling somebody he is going to hell is flat out incorrect, yet i stumble on no longer something incorrect with any of the different issues which you point out, the two. individually, i do no longer do anybody of them - aside from affirming what's sin and what isn't. yet even in that, i do no longer do it in a adverse way - in simple terms in a "count of actuality" way, and that i additionally supply non-Biblical info as quickly as I try this. working example: i do no longer could desire to apply in simple terms the ten Commandments to tell you that homicide is a sin; the indisputable fact that we've good outcomes for this is "info" adequate of that. and that i do no longer in basic terms could desire to motel to the Bible to "teach" that homosexuality is a sin; the info that a million.) there has been no "gay gene" chanced on, 2.) comparable twins, who could desire to the two be gay a hundred% of the time if there have been this sort of gene, have been chanced directly to be so under a million/2 of the time, and 3.) between different issues, gay human beings can assume a existence expectancy this is a million/2 of the norm, all do the artwork for me very precise. the element is: Sin is all approximately outcomes; even however if God have been to be judgmental then going to hell could be one in all them, sin has its outcomes in this existence, too. If what you do has - or could have - adverse outcomes for you, this is a sin. yet i do no longer choose the Bible to tell me that.
2016-10-02 02:04:02 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋