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Originally posted by Elspode
I found Christianity to be way too hypocritical and guilt-ridden, and just didn't ring true for me, so I drifted, not quite certain about anything except science for about twenty years.
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Not sure if I'm ready to enter the feeding frenzy over in Philosophy yet. I will for sure read anything you post over there though. I was just in the process of checking out your pics. Very interesting. Now I have tons of questions about all you're "graven" objects. After I finish looking at them I'll start asking, if you don't mind me doing so
About the quote above. This is exactly how I have felt about Catholicism. I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school and the whole deal about being born a sinner, and everything I do is a sin and I'm going to hell, etc. basically made me feel like crap about myself. And I still feel like crap about myself even though I don't really practice the religion anymore. I finally broke away when I got old enough and brave enough to tell my dad I wasn't going to church anymore, which by the way wasn't all that long ago. My dad's the kind of guy you don't stand up to without expecting to get your ass kicked for doing so. For example, I feel weird even talking negatively about Catholicism, like God is going to cease my breathing when I go to bed tonight and I'll end up on like the ninth level in hell. I don't really know if you care to hear all this crap, I'm sure you have your own problems to deal with, but for some reason I feel confortable talking to a complete stranger about it, well you anyway, Els. Not sure why. Maybe because I know that you don't buy into all that stuff so I don't have to worry about you passing judgement on me for expressing my views. Well, before I totally spill my guts out, I'll wait to see if you don't mind me talking to you about this stuff. I'm going to go finish checking out your pics. Talk to ya later
Oh yea, when you say you didn't believe any anything but science for awhile, you mean science like experiments, not science like Scientology (sp) right?