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Post by Midnight Rider on Feb 27, 2019 0:17:21 GMT
I was born and raised by atheist/agnostic parents. We never went to church and both my parents had dealings with the church that left a bad taste in their mouths as adults. So I grew up with the idea that Christians were kooks. Around age 30 I married a Christian and decided I would give her faith a try. Why not? I enjoyed Eastern religion and New Agey stuff as well. So we all went to a Pentecostal church for a decade and I got some indoctrination. As much programming as a mind raised by atheists would allow, anyway. I bought into most of the church baloney, but not at a foundational level. Christianity was a layer of personality on top of an atheistic/agnostic foundation. At age 40 I got divorced, stopped going to church (to avoid the Ex)and my Christianity evaporated over about 2 years. My last vestige of Christianity was the fear of disappointing Jesus with certain legal, yet sinful thoughts and behaviors. But after a while I had to tell Jesus to shove it because I wasn't going to be afraid or guilty anymore. Since then I've learned that most Ex-Christians gave up their faith because it was illogical, without reason and that the bible and church is full of contradiction.
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