Do you ever feel silly for having believed the church's story?

Question

We are fundementally different from the animals - the soul stuff except for the way we eat eliminate that food - procreate and a few other things that should have been obvious

Jonah and the Wale , Moses instructions to the Israeites to kill each other when he found out about the Golden calf , the menstral laws
Jesus and his slavery is A ok stance the contridictions of the gospels the fear mongering of Rev the keep women quiet in church routine etc etc etc

Judges (11:29-39)
When "the spirit of the Lord" comes upon Jephthah, he makes a deal with God: If God will help him kill the Ammonites, then he (Jephthah) will offer to God as a burnt offering whatever comes out of his house to greet him. God keeps his end of the deal by providing Jephthah with "a very great slaughter." But when Jephthah returns, his nameless daughter comes out to greet him (who'd he expect, his wife?). Well, a deal's a deal, so he delivers her to God as a burnt offering -- after letting her spend a couple of months going up and down on the mountains bewailing her virginity.

Does God approve of human sacrifice?

Answer 1

I was silly to believe that babies need a baptism so that they do not avoid heaven if they die.

I believe the Bible is true

Answer 2

I don't know if I would call it silly, but after being raised Catholic my whole life and not reading the bible except for a little bit. I just listened to preachers and Christians and until I actually read some of it a couple months ago to prove a point Wow I was in for a quite a shock. To think I actually thought I was a Christian even knowing for some time I was not Catholic I did not think I am not even Christian. It really flipped me out the way they portray women. I can't believe in a book where women are the cause of all that is evil and we are called whores and so on. It just made me sick.

Answer 3

I used to believe the tales the Church spouted when I was a little kid (like 5 through about 8), but I never really believed it because I wasn't old enough to understand. When I grew older, it was obvious to me that it was all only brainwashing. I can't really say that I feel silly about it, because I was little and didn't know any better. I was just like all of the other kids in Catholic school; we believed that when a book has the word "Bible" on the front, it instantly holds nothing but absolute truth.

Answer 4

I don't think I ever totally believed it. I was fourteen when I first read an Edgar Cayce book, and I instantly knew that this was it for me. I later expanded my reading, and as I did, I kept getting closer and closer to what I really believe. Now, the things I read in All the Neale Donald Walsch books, almost completely nail it for me. *sm*

Answer 5

Nah. I was a little kid. Took me about four years from believing in Santa to not believing in God.

Answer 6

I used to, but I eventually realized that I was brainwashed, as unfortunately, the rest of my family still is. Victims are not guilty.

Answer 7

I will hop on my dinosaur and leave if I hear such talk again!

Answer 8

Which church?