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When I Got Untethered From The Comfort of Religion ... (Original Post) ItsjustMe Feb 2022 OP
Some of us just weren't cut out for religion. Chainfire Feb 2022 #1
Trump does not need Christ's forgiveness and ridicules Holy Communion. keithbvadu2 Feb 2022 #2
Great. Mr.Bill Feb 2022 #3
Let's bash agnostics. old as dirt Mar 2022 #4
 

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
1. Some of us just weren't cut out for religion.
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 09:53 AM
Feb 2022

I was raised by Christian parents, who had Christian parents, all of the people who surrounded me were Christians, I was Baptized in a Southern protestant religion, I was forced to go to Sunday School every week, but I never really "believed." It just made no sense to me, even as a child. I left religion behind long before high school and have not suffered a bit from the abandonment, and I believe that it has made me a better man. I am not forgiven for my sins against my fellow men, so, in order to live with myself, I have to pay attention to the pain that I may cause others. I have plenty of anxiety, guilt and fear to satisfy my needs without religion.

I have accepted that I just have one go-round, that that death is the natural order of things. I don't fear death so I do not need the promise of "everlasting life." I do not desire immortality, even in paradise.

keithbvadu2

(40,097 posts)
2. Trump does not need Christ's forgiveness and ridicules Holy Communion.
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 10:09 AM
Feb 2022

The republicans' new savior/messiah Trump does not need Christ's forgiveness and ridicules Holy Communion.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=trump+does+not+need+christ

 

old as dirt

(1,972 posts)
4. Let's bash agnostics.
Mon Mar 14, 2022, 05:03 AM
Mar 2022

Agnostics are just a bunch of sniveling cowards.

First they came for the Christians, and I was not Christian, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the agnostics, but I was not an agnostic, so I did not speak out.
When they came for the atheists, there was nobody left to speak out.

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