I've seen alot of posts on here about how most christians do not read the bible and don't truly understand what the bible says. This made me think back to my christian days. Of course i read the good/cherry picked parts of the bible but when i tried to read the whole bible it got confusing/boring/contradictory so i just stuck to the good parts.

I tried to think why i wasn't more interested in reading the whole bible and the truth it was supposed to hold.

I think myself like most people who say they are christian fall under the same dilemma. We didn't really understand the bible or what it said all we knew was that we were scared to death at church when the preacher started preaching about hell and we sure didn't want to go there no matter what. So we went up to the altar to get our "Fire Insurance" policy. We didn't know if it was right or not but we wanted the fire insurance policy just in case.

Once we obtained this fire insurance policy then we feel like we are safe. We want to try to do the right thing but if we don't then at least we know we have protection from hell.

After we get the fire insurance most of us look at the christian life and don't really like all the rules but we pretend we do like them and pretend we don't like to do sinful stuff like fornication, drink beer or cuss when in fact i think they were more pleasurable to do when trying to live a righteous life.

Being a christian is wearing a mask. You are fake and not being true. You have to put on a show like you are a righteous person and can't be true authentic self.

I believe most christians really don't care what all the bible says besides the cherry picked part. They feel like they are members of an exclusive country club and look at others outside the country club with a combination of sympathy from true believers and disdain from most