Turn Christians against their own religion?

Question

http://tinyurl.com/yvjjp5

I spent a whole day writing that so tell me what ya think.

Answer 1

I know Nihilist said no Christian would bother to read it but I am Christian and read it. I don't recognize it as truth for myself, but I understand it's your understanding of truth and I can respect that to a degree. I would respect it more if you were less "aggressive" as someone else put it - less abusive with your language and swearing.

It sounds like you're in the midst of an awful experience, at a school where people don't understand you. They may think they have the best of intentions, but they aren't really looking at who you are and engaging you at that level. I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe they say they are Christian but are missing it in their heart. All of us, Christians or not, are imperfect and make mistakes. Many use the title of Christian but mean little by it. In any case, I'm saddened by the experiences you've had and the path it's led you down. You seem very angry and hurt, which isn't a good starting point for the adventure of life that lies ahead of you.

Lest you think all Christians are mindless individuals who slurp up what they're spoon fed from birth... I have a graduate degree, majored in microbiology and psychology, and was not raised in the church (well, we started going when I was in 7th grade). At that time, the church was the family I needed during a time when that was completely missing in my life. I may have used the title "Christian" but it wasn't until college that I went through an experience that really made faith come alive for me. All through growing up, I made plans for my life, but felt something was missing. As I left for college, chose my majors, I thought that emptiness would disappear, and it would briefly. But it wasn't until I encountered God in the "valley of the shadow of death" that the emptiness was filled once and for all.

Regarding your Bible quotes, Orchidmg already summed it up. As far as a list of proofs go, they were meager. Besides, consider the thousands of lawyers and judges required to interpret and apply our code of law. Written words are rarely as simple as they first appear. If the Bible were written in clear terms a 6th grader could understand, we'd be missing too much. It's through my struggle to understand, through deep study and grappling with the words, which are found to have so many levels of meaning, that I have grown as a Christian and as a person.

I read your entire piece, I wonder whether you'll read what I and other Christians have written. Your anger is so deep, it's hard to know whether anything will be able to reach beyond that anger. While I would pray you'd someday be reconciled to God (not necessarily the God which has been shoved down your throat), I'd hope you could overcome your anger regardless - it is a feeling which can be righteous and appropriate for a time so it will motivate us to grow, but is an awful place to reside.

Answer 2

wow! busy bee u r! I read it all. I was going to stop after the 1st paragraph because I hate the F word. It's completely unncessary. And you're 15 yrs old. Why so much hate? But I read it all just to see if you could turn me against my religion. I'm Catholic. You didn't. Actually I'm stronger now after reading your rants. Your swearing, anger, hate and trying to find contradictions (but didn't) made me NOT want to leave the Lord. If I left the Lord I might end up like you and I'd hate that! I don't want to be an angry child. Some young kid that thinks he knows something about God's word but in reality knows absolutely nothing.

All the biblical verses that you wrote about the members of an a.ss in Ezekiel from the different Bible translations didn't prove anything. Some of the words in that one verse are different but it means the exact same thing. She was a harlot. So what's your point? And the ranting about stoning adulterers and prostitutes and using a rod on children.....so? Ancient Hebrews did those things becuz God commanded it. Jesus put an end to such things. That's why Christians don't do that. Muslims do though. Preach to them! And maybe your father did use a big enough rod on you. Obviously you haven't been kept in line and you have lost respect. Even for yourself. What you typed there is full of anger and hate. But to who? To you own misunderstanding of God's own words. You need to grow up some more and try again.

I thank you and people like you that try to turn me away from my Lord. Because every time I meet someone like you, my faith grows stronger. Peace!

Answer 3

i see, you are a fu*# head you realize that dont you? i have been a devout Catholic since i was young, the differnt translations of the bible are there because, as you may know, aramaic is not a set language. and what you wrote was crap as all of them said the same thing in a differnt way. it has been said by many a person, "the Devils worst trick is to make you believe he doesnt exist at all". i will pray for you brother and hope that yopu can over come trying times in your life. im not saying that you have to become christian, or catholic, i just think you should rexamine religion as a whole. from the way you present your article i appears that you have been abused or other wise inappropriatly maneuvered by a person of clergy--for this i am sorry.

yours,
the 17 year old Know It All

Answer 4

Shalom Alexander,
I didn't read your website,
I didn't need too. You're not the first and you won't be the last person in frenzied delight,
who venture out on a smear campaign against Christianity.

I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but you're not an original.

What you and others like you cannot comprehend is the reality of God's presence in a Believer's life. All disbelief, debating, and argueing comes Before faith arrives.

Answer 5

Tell me Alexander, how do you explain the beginning of life.

The complexity of the very first fossilized life is impossible to have begun by chance, and there is absolutely no fossilized record of anything simpler existing previously, i.e. "Self-replicating RNA polymers"
Proteins are not produced outside of life and the fossil record bears no evidence of large amounts of amino acids, proteins or any thing that could be construed as a building block of life. There would have to be huge amounts of these for the cell to have even a remote chance of coming to be without divine intervention. Which would have left a large chemical signature in the pre-cambrian rock.

Watch these 2 videos to understand the complexity of a cell and then email me with an explanation of how they came about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXCmQdSl0GA&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Je1GdGpsxI&mode=related&search=

Answer 6

Wow you have way to much time on your hands. How about stop trying to prove that God Doesnt Exist you have nothing to gain from this. Those of us that believe he does well thats up to us and if you want to keep continue nit picking and if you don't reign in some of your anger you will have an ulcer by the time you are 17. So just Chill live and let live, and just allow people to believe in what their hearts tell them is true.

Answer 7

You cannot turn a true Christian against Christianity. You can turn a religious person against their religion though. Example would for a Catholic person to convert to a non denominational church to relearn what Christianity really means. There are allot of those people in my church. I have nothing against the Catholic religion, I believe that there are plenty of Catholics that are Christians but it is mostly just a religion with rituals and rehearsed prayer, not truly praying and worshiping God himself. 80% of my church are Catholic religious people who wanted to learn and understand the truth about being a Christian. Sometimes the Catholic religion turn people against the church. People believe that this religion is not what they want, but they don't understand that they were not being taught to be Christians but they were taught religion and people become lost because of this.

Answer 8

Your proof that evolution cannot be true. No teenager would have survived in a world built on survival of the fittest until they were old enough for their brain cells to engage in meaningful dialog and not childish rantings.

Answer 9

And how is this different from the ideology of the Crusades?
Oh thank you, you finally convinced me to never go to an outside lik.
It only took the first 4 words. And don't worry, your "message" will not be quoted by me anytime soon.
God Bless You, I will definitely be praying for you.

Answer 10

Common people you have to acknowledge Christians can be annoying in pushing their religion.

With Christianity there is no integrity because to live by what is called God’s word is impossible and unpractical not to mention immoral by today's standards. This should give you your first hint why a book written in a more primitive time has become invalid in modern times. We understand more about life today than those of the past.

The kid is a thinker, which is intimidating to a Christian. The day of worshiping a God has to end for man to live up to his true potential.

God is dead because man has grown beyond him. There will be no way to keep your religions alive in modern times. That is why Christians are trying to use law to keep their voice alive. To push outdated doctrine will plunge us into such hell and misery yet your religion will not prevail but the God believers will try anyway.

Education not indoctrination is the only way will further create this earth into a better place.

Theist you have to understand in this modern times your religions is proven to be the mental limitation of a more primitive culture.

There is so much proof against the idea of God. Worship of anything has to go away. Man has to embrace his own responsibility to create a working civilization. Peace cannot come through a God that is not present to assert his own point of view. Because God do not speak for himself we must act as does not exist. No man can speak for another man so why are we willing to listen to men that claim to speak for a God? The God voice has to die until he can speak for himself. Let face it the God voice was never a real to begin with.

This will be hard for the religious to accept because of wrongful indoctrination. I to was indoctrinated in to Christian primitive way of thinking. It was my own ability to think for myself that brought me out of the darkness of primitive doctrine.