serious question here. Now to all people on here who have left christianity and became whatever you are?

Question

please answer this honesty please. Only to these people who left please reply. That the christians were being too rude, judgemental, constantly in your face and pushy, Came accross too controlling, telling you that you are going to hell all the time, pretenders, etc. Now people if you left christianity because of these things and nothing else I want to hear back from you. I am a christian who has had in your face kind of christians and very pushy, I guess that is maily in America, but I am in Aussie Land. But I have had many Jugemental christians, I can't stand it myself, but that will not push me away from Jesus, nothing will. So people I need to hear about your experience of why you left Jesus, Jesus has never left you., infact he loves you. So I need to know what set you packing from christianity. Becasue I know some christians do push people away, expecially when that think that they are better than anyone else. To me they are Hypocrites. I like christians that pray for you, who

who do not hold your past against you, that does not juge you, as only God can do that, chritians that respect other people and thier belife instead of telling them they are going to hell. Sure hell is a real place, but I for one do not tell people now about hell at first. They have to be strong in thier faith first. Anyways just to let you know Jesus talked to sinners, and talked to prostitues etc.

This goes out to blessed. You are a hypocrite. with an avitar like that I would change that, dose not suite you. Blessed, are you really? OK if you say so.

Answer 1

While I have had my fill of rude Christians, no I did not leave Christianity because of them. I became an atheist because in the end, I didn't believe it anymore. I can't sit in a church going through the motions of something I know is not true. The Bible is full of contradictions and absurdities, so its value as proof is weak. It is not logical that god created the universe. There are reasons to be an atheist besides how horrible other people can be.

Answer 2

Cannot say that it was the people of the religion that made me loose the christianity. Myself, I started to ask different questions of the scriptures. I had always thought that the god of the old testament and the god of the new testament could not be the same god. They acted different,talked different and asked totally different things of the people that followed them. This made and still makes no sense. This can not be the same god. The deeper I dug and the more I educated and that is the key EDUCATED my mind the more I thought wow this stuff is really silly. And that all of the past and much older religions of the world had similar and sometimes identical beliefs,celebrations,customs,festival days and rituals. With this in mind and knowing that these people believed as strongly in their god as I did the christian god but that they were wrong in some way? Made no sense... What I have made up in my mind is that relgion is made up by man and if there is a creator out there it most likely does not infulence,interject, or anyother word you can add in, into our lives.

Answer 3

I used to be Christian, and left it only because I found that I had no reason to believe in God in the first place. I decided to search for the truth rather than be forced into believing something through fear of Hell and reward of Heaven - if there really was a God, it wouldn't be so sadistic.

Answer 4

Uh..., Basically I read the Bible, and disagreed with a lot of the things in there. Then I listened to the sermon at mass and all the people responding automatically like a bunch of sheep, and decided that I wasn't like them. Then I went around and took a look at most of the world's major religions, and decided that I would only take what I considered useful from them, and leave the rest behind.

Answer 5

Gee, that sounds like a multiple choice question. But anyway I was raised a Baptist and believed all their doctrines of hate and discontent until I got old enough and smart enough to think for myself and see that a lot of their ideas are not constructive in building a society that is accepting and productive. Then I tried other protestant religions and found them much the same. I read a lot about Catholic theology and it too was about the same. So in the end I decided to abandon Christianity altogether in favor of Agnosticism, which to me makes a lot more sense.

Answer 6

It was becoming aware that there are many contradictions in the Bible and much ignorance about reality and science in it that made me leave. That began when I was age 7. It is the barbaric people you mention who keep me away from Christian churches and cause me not to speak to my oldest sister . I study martial arts at the Soto Zen Buddhist Temple in Japantown, and I have attended some of their services. The Buddhists behave much better than Christians.

Answer 7

I was Christian and came into contact with a hypocrite. She was more snobby than hypocritical. But, I've also known plenty of genuinely nice people who were Christian. I came to my non-belief based o reason, common sense and rationality.
Sorry you're having such a rough time but a person's personality also affects whether or not they can live up to what they teach/preach.

Answer 8

Simple... I learned how to think properly.

I don't know how it is in Australia, but in the USA, approximately 80% of adults have never even heard of 'critical thinking'... much less, know how to actualy DO it. But the simple fact is that when someone learns how to think critically, religious belief is the first thing to go... poof.

Think about it... you believe that a cosmic Jewish zombie, who is his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced to eat from a magical tree by an infinitely sadistic being, disguised as a talking snake with legs...

Now... how rational is THAT?

"A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism” ~ Donald Morgan

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." ~ Robert M. Pirsig
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Answer 9

"That the christians were being too rude, judgemental, constantly in your face and pushy, Came accross too controlling, telling you that you are going to hell all the time, pretenders, etc. "

Yes. All of that and more. I'm not interested in Jesus' love. I have the love of my Goddess and I don't two-time.

Answer 10

Every church going so called christian i know are the most self centered full of **** backstabbing people i have evr met that is why i refuse to attend services to this day.icant stand a two faced reverend priest or deacon telling me one thing and one hour after service thier with the town /church ladies tramp
or shaking yourt *** drinking at the club or fuckinng boys in alter boy practice.