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In your opinion, why did Christianity not 'stick' with you?

A definition of Christianity"

“The belief that some cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.”

So how, at least after science, does this kind of belief system still hang on? I get that mythology explained the unexplained. But after, through science, we understood the sun and our universe, how and why things really work the way they do, why has this retarded story continued to divide, shame and kill?

Maybe, what I am really trying to ask is, what is it about us, the people in this forum, that make us different from Christians? How did we shake that belief system when others did not?

when I was 18, I studied in a bible college and was deeply ingrained in this nonsense. But at some point, a light came on.

What was your "coming out" experience?

flaitguy 3 Oct 19
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My first college degree was from a Christian college. While there I took 5 of the religion classes, I also did Mathematics there. One of them was the interpretation class and because of my young age some how believed what the professor said in that class. Along with my work, I also taught adult Sunday school classes at the church I was at. While doing that I was also working on a second degree at a public university. I then said it was time to read the Bible from beginning to end yet again, I had already done that twice, and the contradictions and killings finally started my questioning. I also pulled out my college notes to see what they had to say and couldn't reconcile any of it.
It then took me about 6 months to evolve from deism to agnosticism.

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Because I could clearly see it was benefiting some and not all.

SamL Level 7 Oct 19, 2017
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I was a believer, raised mostly Conservative Baptist. I always had an issue with the idea of God sending good people to Hell; but it was what I was taught and I was taught not to question God. Well, in my early thirties I began to question the Bible and whether it was indeed inspired by a God and infallible. It didn't take long for me to discover that it isn't. My journey from believer to atheist took about ten years. I first thought I was a "Liberal Christian" who didn't take the Bible literally but that didn't stick. Why cling to Christianity at all? I wondered. I then looked at other belief systems and none made sense to me so I settled into Deism. But, I didn't stop there, I continued to learn, which included learning more about the science I had been taught to fear and ignore; I soon realized that there is no evidence for a god and there is no need for one for the universe to behave as it does. And, since I pleaded with the god I believed in to not let me get led astray, and I ended up being an atheist, I can only surmise that there is no god; or, if there should be one, it doesn't know or care what I think or believe.

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Where do I begin? Because going to church is fucking boring. Taking time out of my life to pray and do all that other shit, unnecessary. All these fucking rules about not touching your wiener, but they go and rape little boys. A bunch of expensive rituals: Baptism, communion, confirmation, confession, marriage. Trained to be afraid of shit that isn't even harmful to anyone else or one's self. I'm already scared of rabies, now I gotta be scared of some dude in the sky that watches my every move? And I gotta be scared of some dude who makes people do shit like some evil Professor X. Pfft, fuck that. Too much shit to worry about.
Also, I got into ancient(classical) mythology from the Navajo to the Greeks to the Chinese. "So, you're telling me that everyone else is wrong - possibly millions, if not hundreds of thousands of interpretations of the world's creation etc. and you're the right one because you call your shit ALL-powerful, I gotta see this. Why should any of you be right to begin with?"

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What's interesting is to look at the scientific knowledge we have today vs. what they had in the year 1 A.D. If you thought the Earth was the center of the Universe, and the stars were just points of light rotating around in the sky, the idea that God created Earth and focused all that attention on it could potentially make sense. Now that we know we are just one tiny planet rotating around one of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in a Universe that was created ~14,000,000,000 years ago, you would literally have to be insane to believe the Old Testament stories.

BD66 Level 8 Oct 19, 2017
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My movement away from religion started in my teen years. I was active in my church and a youth fellowship leader, and had read the Bible from cover to cover 3 times by the age of 15. Still I did not like being made to feel "a sinner"l for have normal thoughts and teenage urges. The more I read the Bible, the more I noted discrepancies, obvious fictions, and simply weird stuff (as in Revelations). I also began to see the hypocrisy in the behavior of more than a few adult "Christians."

All together, these things drove me away from religion and into the realm of agnosticism. As I grew older gained the knowledge and courage to reject all aspects of religion At the age of 80, I do not fear death. I reject all of the theology -- belief in any god, existence of Satan, belief in life after death, even having a "soul" I am simply a biological being who has lived a full life and will die.
When I die, there will be no funeral and no burial. I will live on only in the minds of friends and family and in the beliefs and actions of those I have influenced.
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