2007-09-21 08:32:22 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Don't pray, stand on your own damned feet. fall and learn.
Don't go to church, because that mindless dribble is infectious
stay away from people who constantly pray
and just live a good, nice life and don't bother too many people (in a bad way)
2007-09-21 08:37:41 · answer #1 · answered by devinthedragon 5 · 10⤊ 5⤋
You cannot be Christian and think for yourself.
So you claim to be Christian but you commit a sin so you feel guilty for it or you pray to be forgiven for it. Those are both teachings that have conditioned you to act a certain way given any situation. You do NOT think for yourself following any organized group/religion.
Thinking for yourself means drawing your own conclusions based on proof that is reproducable and solid.
At some point your mommy or daddy told you there was a God and you said "Ok" and when you got older and had a brian of your own you never stopped to draw your own conclusions.
You are not thinking for yourself.
2007-09-21 08:51:30 · answer #2 · answered by Prochoice 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You ask the question as if the two are mutually exclusive. I could take offense, but I choose not to. Therein lies the answer you seek. We are what we choose to be. I am a Catholic. Does that mean I blindly follow what some old guy in a dress tells me? I will answer that for you too. No I don't! I actually teach middle school science and math and I think intelligent design is in a load of organic fertilizer! That does not make me any less of a Christian. Look, believe what you want, but don't make stupid generalizations. That makes you just as ignorant as the fundamentalists you are rebelling against.
2007-09-21 08:42:53 · answer #3 · answered by James H 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Get common sense. That’s what happened to me when I was about 10 years old. Coming for a Christian family I was exposed early on and immediately realized that it was complete non-sense. Educate yourself with REAL books, books ones with facts like encyclopaedias, text books, essays, stuff like that. And do not just read one, read many so you can see differing points of view and you can form your very own and original opinions. If you choose to base your opinions on ONE work of fiction (The Bible) then you are not really thinking for yourself.
2007-09-21 08:48:02 · answer #4 · answered by Six Drive 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i do both pretty well. but i'm not just some run of the mill Christian. I'm a Mormon who also happens to be a recovered drug addict. I know what having no choice is all about, try being an opiate addict. with a little coke and booze too. I have never had more freedom than i do now. and i put my trust in God everyday.
2007-09-21 08:43:14 · answer #5 · answered by plastik punk -Bottom Contributor 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you need to ask yourself how can I keep Satan out of my life? For he is the one who put this question into your mind. You can be a christian and also think for yourself. Remember to listen for the Holy Ghost he will always direct you in the right direction.
2007-09-21 08:44:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would I want to stop being a Christian? My relationship with the Lord is utmost important. God comes first before anyything . That's like asking me to stop breathing or to stop my heart from pumping, the Lord is part of who Iam. And I already think for myself just fine. I chose to be in this relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ God Almighty.
2007-09-21 08:43:10 · answer #7 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When I was a kid, my father always countered my - usually pretty ridiculous arguments against getting on with it and doing something that I knew I had to do, NOW. He'd say..... "Nothing to it but to do it". He was right then, and I have found it a tried and trusted statement of everything else throughout my whole life.
Like the overwhelming majority of people, I, too, grew up to a certain amount of "religious conditioning".... indoctrinated into the beliefs of my parents and family. But I had one incredible asset that most of the others don't have. My own parents who, at the same time as they were teaching me about my heritage, also told me....."This is what we pass on to you simply because it was what we had passed on to us by our own families. We honestly cannot tell you what, if any of it, is factual, and this is something that you must make a determination about for yourself as you grow in years, experience, knowledge, intelligence, and understanding of the world around you and the beliefs of the people in it."
Thanks, Mom and Dad, you didn't have too much to give me materially, but you suuuuure gave me a priceless gift.........you gave me MySELF. You gave me the gift that is my true inalienable right - to be the owner of my own mind, and the master of my own thinking and believing. You taught me that this WAS my entitlement, and I believe that I have used it wisely and well throughout my life, to make me the strong, sound-minded, independent, self-determining and confident person I am today.
Not just Christianity, but, indeed, all religions and/or cults, are based on obedience to a set of "rules" handed down by some Mysterious, invisible superbeing, whom nobody has ever seen, but you are told is a reality; whom nobody has ever heard, yet they tell you "sez this and sez that", and whom nobody even has the remotest idea what he/she/it even is, and yet everybody claims to have a "personal relationship" with this entity. And based, too, on the twin strategies of Threat and Fear of aaaaaallll the truly hideous things that this kind, loving, compassionate, caring, wonderful "Father" is liable to do to you if you commit the smallest infringement of his rigid "laws and commands"
If you want to unchain yourself from the walls of the prison you entered the day you were born.... if you want to pass through the "virtual bars" of the cage that you were conditioned to believe you were bound within "for your own sake".... and spread your wings and soar up, up, up into the open skies of self determination and knowledge and understanding and true freedom............ "There IS nothing to it, but to do it."
2007-09-21 08:59:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since when did Cristianity become a cult? Thats basically what you compared us to. As far I know there is no one way to follow christ. After all there is Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, Evangelical, Protestant,etc... and a whole slew of younger denominational and non-denominational churches world wide. If and when you choose to read the bible, you will find that God DOES NOT WANT blind sheep to follow him. It must be of our own free will and any path that leads to Him is the right path.
2007-09-21 08:53:35 · answer #9 · answered by leighkendra 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just stop believing things because someone tells you. Don't believe anything unless you research it and there is good, non-biased evidence to believe it. Ask questions.
For instance, why would an all-good, all powerful, all knowing God, make a world where it is possible for people to mess up and suffer eternally when it is just a tiny part of their souls life?
Why would someone who loves someone ever let them suffer eternally, even if they broke the rules?
2007-09-21 08:38:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
i don't think it's something you can stop being, do u feel in your heart that you believe? i am not a christian, do u belive in god? you must decide what path u want to follow and why you r questioning your christanity. u can still be a good person and not belive in god
2007-09-21 08:47:32 · answer #11 · answered by Katherine D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋