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Nov 11, 2009 23:23

From http://community.livejournal.com/exchristians/198593.html

1. Were you raised in a Christian household? If not, how were you exposed to Christianity?
Yes.
2. How long did you identify yourself as a Christian, and if you're like me who lapsed twice, how many times did you identify ( Read more... )

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silent_bunny November 13 2009, 03:45:30 UTC

If I had to say, they were probably more strict than the average Church. That is just an assumption based upon the fact that the church was Latino.

Heh, my church was Chinese, so I got a double whammy of the doctrine of gratitude and obedience.

You are thinking about how long you've been sitting in church and how incredibly bored you are. Strange how despite all that time I spent, I became an atheist. Or perhaps it is just ironic.

I think it may have better equipped you to be an atheist because you already know all the arguments. and saw the BS first hand.

Excited to leave and feeling a bit mischievous, we had our own style. "Bye."

LOL! Sounds like the kids at my youth group who were only there because their parents dragged them. If you're going to drag a kid to something as boring and long and sometimes fake as church on a Sunday morning and they don't want to be there, it's only fair that they can laugh in over emotional scenes in youth group and write flippant comments on the wall.

The internet. Internet debates ( ... )

aclevermoniker November 22 2009, 09:47:56 UTC

Definitely. The Internet introduced me to slash which made me think homosexuality wasn't so bad, and it made it possible for me to have the indepth discussion about religion that I couldn't offline.Shame it isn't as easy as say...well, let me explain. I have brought up the more ridiculous parts of the Bible...you know. Shellfish is an abomination, men can't have long hair etc. Take the typical Christian, say something out of Leviticus (but don't say it was from the Bible) and they will say you are crazy, ignorant, or a fool. But if you were to say those things are from the Bible...well from my experience, Christians basically just ignore it. Animal sacrifice, selling your daughter into slavery, you name it, they ignore it ( ... )