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Everyone is entitled to their beliefs and opinions and all I was asking for was the same.
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I appreciate your opinion and defend your right to express it... as well as the opinions and rights of everyone else reading or posting here.
I was raised in a baptist home and it was those same baptists that talked me out of the ability to have any type of religious belief, whatsoever. Their dogma is what ruined it.
First, there was the bible. They told me the bible was the eternal and unchanging word of god. Then they said there was a "new" testament; Bible 2.0, and THAT was the eternal, unchanging word of god. So, god changed his mind?
They wanted me to believe god was loving and caring and compassionate and would always forgive me and take care of me, no matter what. But, if I ever so much as questioned my faith, god would let me burn in hell. So much for that loving, caring, compassionate stuff.
Then they told me god couldn't cast me into hell but he cast lucifer there for being a bad angel. Hmmmm, I'm starting to see a pattern here and it's not just christianity I have a problem with. All religions seem to have similar opposite battles going on within their teachings.
I believe there must have been a beginning somewhere, I just don't know where or how it all began. Do I believe in some old guy in a white robe in the clouds playing people like marrionettes? NO! Is there some "power" in the universe? There must be something like a universal energy we all share and whatever it is that makes us who we are... spirit or whatever, floats around there until it finds a place to land.
Do I believe I was created in the likeness of some god? Nope. I was created because my fathers sperm invaded my mothers egg and a rapid division of cells occurred, causing me to develop. I wasn't "alive" until I got out of there and started sucking air and a little of that universal energy got on me.
I live by 2 "commandments" and they are my own:
1. Give a little, take a little.
2. Keep yourself clean.
If you think about them, you can make your own interpretations. I won't be pretentious enough to try to dictate what they SHOULD mean to you.