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Consider: -

Do your posts draw people to christianity? HARDLY

Do they offend and drive them further away? HIGHLY LIKELY!!

God's work? HARDLY

Seems you are in serious trouble at the final judgment then!!

Enjoy the heat!!

All we have to do now is work out whether you are just a BAD christian or, more likely, a non christian deliberately out to make christians look intolerant, egotists who love to persecute!!!

There's this little problem I have: I like getting as close to truth as possible. What if atheism leads to the realization that all of this is pointless? (It doesn't.) I would want to know anyway. You reach a point when you simply cannot believe something.

I evaluated theological reasoning for years growing up and ended up deciding it is almost completely in error. Turning around is not an option, because it feels completely in error.

Before you thumb me down, read all of my post.

I used to be a Christian before I became a deist. I would also like to ask, how is it god's word? God didn't write it himself. These prophets told others that god told them to write it. I'm gonna write some believable BS, and tell everyone that god told me to write it. How do you think that will go over?

Bible thumpers are idiotic. This is a little known fact, but there is a difference between Christians and Bible Thumpers. A Christian will try and interpret the verses in scripture. They usually fail when they do. Bible thumpers take everything in the bible literally and do not try and interpret. The bible has been translated, mistranslated, rewritten, added on to, had scripture removed, rearranged, and dumbed down over the years. Genesis is clearly a fable. Revelations didn't happen, or hasn't happened yet, so I'm not sure why it's in the bible if it's just a prophecy. The bible has lots of symbolism and metaphors. The ruler of Rome, Constantine, added verses that were made against homosexuals because he was homophobic and was trying to rally everyone against the Greeks whose men had sex with each other, often. He also changed the date of Christmas because December 25th fell on the same date a pagan holiday he destroyed. If I haven't made it evident enough, it's almost impossible to understand the bible. I believe it's just a collection of fictitious fairy tales that were made to be interpreted in many different ways.

I had a friend who was gay and went to church all his life. When he came out, all the Christians kept telling him that he was a terrible person, and unless he changed his ways, he would go to hell. They tried to "cure" him, and one day he decided he couldn't take it anymore. I lost a good friend.

My church also preaches against LGBT, and because I’m bisexual I felt like an outcast there for many years. I came out to my friend who had been my friend at that church for over 10 years, and he no longer talks to me. As I became smarter, I began questioning the bible before rejecting it entirely. I don’t reject God, though. I believe there is a God, but I’m never going to believe in any religion.

This is why I’m a deist. I’m no longer brainwashed.

Was dropping out of 3rd grade worth it in the end?

I really hope for the sake of the faithful that you are just pretending to be a Christian. Otherwise, I think I already know why you're religious.

Fail.

Is this some watered-down version of Pascal's wager?

Try to form a coherent question. Then come back.

I'm not sure what you're asking, but if it's about sincerity, then yes. It is worth it to be sincere.

I'm sorry, have I missed something? If you're going to be abusive, at least make sense.