I don't believe the bible anymore

I was raised christian but the older I get the farther from conventional religion I go.
The bible is basically an ancient somewhat historical document that borrowed from other pagan religions at the time.
I also believe it is political in that it pushed the agenda of a certain people in the old testament and was used to govern them.
The existence of jesus and the new testament is more fabrication and more of a backlash against the roman empire.
Sad that this book has been twisted to destroy so many world cultures.
Why is it the evil people win in the end?
What were humans like years ago without the influence of jesus and materialism crammed down there throats?
I know those questions are rhetorical, what i really wonder is what damage has living in a christian country done to me?
Its very disturbing.

 

If there's a hell, I'm headed there for all of the blaphemous things I've said about the bible. :&

 

NO WAY you will ever touch hell my friend. no room for HCM there. Bush and people like him have VIP seats there.

That's the only thing that bothers me. Do evil people really got off scott free?
Do our actions really not matter?

 

Well, I firmly believe in karma, so I feel that evil people will not get off scott free. What goes around, comes around.

 

On the topic of karma, I've come to think sometimes it is inherited! I feel like at times I am the recipient of some of my parents actions and its up to me to either improve and continue in their path. One's lifespan is too short for any kind of full circle to occur.

 

Hmmm, not sure what to say about that. To be honest, I've never really linked karma with my parents' past actions, I just figured it was all in what I did in the now. If that makes sense? Maybe Samhain might have a take on that one.

 

It's all speculation.
One thing that brings me to that is the fact I'm from South America that had its own religions and culture before Spain conquered it. Maybe its right for me to not want this religion that was forced on my ancestors.
Worshipping the sun and taking virgins is right up my alley and makes more sense compared to an invisible god and a virgin birth.

 

My father was a devote Catholic, my mother, a Baptist. However, she was always more of a pagan at heart, but her parents raised her in a strict and insanely religious manner.

I always baulked at church, didn't want anything to do with it. I never felt quite like I fit in, and I always had a problem with the bible. Specifically the Old Testament. I just didn't care for the way women were represented and treated. I guess it's that feminist streak in me. Anyway, for me, even as a young child, my church was the outdoors. I was always into the pagan lifestyle, a peace loving, nature worshipping child who forever wore a crown of flowers in her hair, running barefoot through the grass, basking in the sunshine. I was a little rescuer, saving the wild animals from untimely deaths, nurturing their broken bones, leaving food out for them. I was just a kind and gentle soul, carried a little blue velvet bag of crystals and "magic" stones, even had a magic wand (just a clear blown glass tube with metallic purple stars, silver and gold moons and suns, and glitter that about in liquid). Some might say I was a peculiar child, but I think I was just very imaginative, and always felt a close bond with nature and things that could not easily be explained.

I used to leave out concoctions of leaves, twigs, berries, blades of grass and rain water for the faeries. My mother encouraged my unconventional behavior and beliefs. I think it was what she had wished she had been like as a child, only she had never been allowed to believe that way.

My children know nothing of organized religion. I have made up my mind that I am going to allow them the choice to choose which path they want to take. I hated being forced to attend services, and being taught things that I wasn't sure I agreed with. When they ask questions, we answer the best we know how. But I want them to make the choice when they are ready. And no matter what, they have my support.

 

Passion Of Christ

 

Doddamn i'm sick of these stinkin commies and their lies.

The bible is real hippy, and you're going to hell.

 

I abhor ALL organized religion, not just Christianity. I personally feel the world would be a better place absent of religion.

 

Well, tell us something we dont know, Inspector Gadget. You learn slow.

 

What did god ever do to you beatnik?

By the way, all other religions are false because the bible says so.

 

LOL ROFLMAO!

 

Roll all you want nancy boy, you won't be able to extinguish the flames.

 

I belive very much in the bible, I always have and always will. I might not be the best at following its laws, but I do belive in it.:sunglasse

 

And this is another example with what is wrong with it. If there is a God, does it not say in the bible that he loves everyone? So just because someone may not conform to a certain religion or hang onto the bible's every word as fact, they're a worthless human being and God will turn his back on them for thinking outside the box? See, I just don't buy that. This is one of my main objections to organized religions and taking every word in the bible literally. Shouldn't we love everyone?

 

You're not good at following the bible's laws?

Join the army son.

 

I never believed in the bible, I just wasn't raised with it being fact

it's a really interesting set of stories and myths... but to me, it's just that, myth. Ditto for most other religions' stories... just interpretations and myths. Not to say that there aren't things to be learned from the bible, but it's not absolute fact.

 

Q.
How do you confuse a christian?

A.
Take them to a museum where they have dinosaur bones!