My spiritual journey, with its many highs and lows, has ended fyi. Following my break from the American Evangelical world along with my personal failures, nervous breakdown and drug addiction, I really set out to discover the truth this past year. With no external pressure I finally could be spiritual but not religious as well as not be afraid to discover truth in other religions, even if that meant converting. I did in fact convert to Hinduism technically, which was a great experience overall, but very eye opening. My conclusion though, have led me to believe that all religion is false and that there very likely is no god at all. Honestly my research shows that there is very little evidence that the Jesus we find in the bible even existed and that Christianity as we know was a total invention of Constantine after 300 AD. There have been rumors before that in the midst of my problems the past few years that I lost my faith and renounced God. That actually couldnt be further from the truth. I had really felt God with me thru it all. Even now I dont renounce God, I just have come to believe from what to me is overwhelming evidence, that there is no God. While I see all religion as bad, Christianity and Islam especially have been the direct cause of most wars in the last 1500 years. Before Constantine, religion was never really THE cause of war. Christianity and Islam were both invented as war aides to manipulate the masses to fight and conquer, while in peacetime they are used to control with fear and guilt. Though the supposed historic Jesus does in fact have much to say on love, the religion as a whole has never been able to reach that bar. And Islam has been 100% bad and evil from the beginning. While the supposed historic jesus does give the chance for a really cool religion for some, islam is just the worst war mongering religion ever invented and should be outlawed throughout the world. I say all this just to set the record straight. Im not trying to piss anyone off, Ive only been trying to live my life and be myself for the last year. Sure before that I may have wanted to piss people off but that hasnt been the case for a long long time. And I dont want people thinking that the end of my spiritual journey is connected to wanting to piss anyone off, it is just the result of my extensive research. I have not lost my faith or renounced God, I have just had the privilege to really seek and in not finding I see it as a GREAT THING to be free of all religious attachments. Posts often have our beliefs attached and so I just want everyone to hear it from the horses mouth first. I have always been very liberal politically, even when I was a Christian. But now Im also an Agnostic Atheist and Im happy to have the chance to really live!!
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 21:54:40 +0000
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