2007-06-02 01:25:54 · 7 answers · asked by Priestcalling 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I was born and raised Catholic. I went to parochial grade and high schools (Sisters of Loretta and Jesuit) and was programmed to become a Jesuit Priest...
Then one day, I started using my Jesuit training in logic to take a SERIOUS look at religion... and realized how it was all based on smoke and mirrors and, when you used logic (the TOOL of religion) against it, then religion just didn't make sense.
When I was about 21, I decided that it was better for me to have a brain and no religion than to have a religion and no brain... and I walked away from religion and have never gone back.
2007-06-02 01:29:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because all religion comes from man and not God.There is no sense of love or compassion in the dry destitution of ceremony.There is only the rancid rapaciousness of the so called ministers of christ who live in wealth while the world suffers in poverty.Deny your religion now.It belongs to the false wicked spirit of this world.Seek your redeemer within.Its easy when you let the crap of religion go.
2007-06-02 08:42:39 · answer #2 · answered by john m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very many.
It's the art of wrapping themselves in cotton wool with their hands firmly over their ears because they don't want to compromise the false comfort that they feel.
Many are willing to remain blissfully ignorant - whether they know the corruption within their religion or not. They simply refuse to lose that comfort. For others it's deeply psychological.
2007-06-02 08:32:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scripture foretold that there would be a time of apostasy in the future and perhaps this is that time,as we know there are events that will lead up to a general chastisement and the way we are going it sure looks inevitable.
2007-06-02 08:40:13 · answer #4 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No amout of religion or philosophy can allow one to escape from having to be responsible for one's own happiness.
At the end of the day, your destiny is determined by your own actions...
2007-06-02 08:36:39 · answer #5 · answered by BobAndrews 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I totally understand your frustration with organized religion, it is like they are all lemmings,( I was one once myself) I was challenged to read the whole bible (king james version) about 10 years ago. I read the whole book I am no longer christian. The atrosities the god of the old testament created, allowed or promoted was too much for me to continue to believe that could be the same god of love the preacher professed to exist. I believe in a god of unconditional love that created our souls with free will (not humans) in his likeness. many souls could not bear to leave fathers side for the loss of love. many souls went out and returned to share their adventures. Some souls rebeled wanted to be a god themselves. This place (earth system) WAS CREATED FOR THE SOUL TO MAKE ITS FINAL CHOICE. Do they really want to be a "little God and live in dominion=lordship over others. or return to father of love/fellowship/joy/sharing/ab... bliss.
What if heaven and hell are exactly the same except for one difference? What ever you picture in your head heaven to be, imagine hell to be the same except for one difference. Everything you can do in heaven you can do in hell except for one difference. The difference is love or dominion. If you choose love you are in heaven, you are sharing love/joy/fellowship, absolute bliss in all you do.
If you choose dominion you are in hell, everyone will be dominion bent, acting without regard to anything but personal pleasure, personal gain, exercising power over others. Everyman for himself in all that is done. Everything else is the same.
Now which path do/will you choose? LOVE or DOMINION
2007-06-02 08:33:13 · answer #6 · answered by happy_kko 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
8,949,498,911 people. Lack of logic and continuity.
2007-06-02 08:29:23 · answer #7 · answered by Uncle Meat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋