If I had even considered becoming a non-Christian about 3 or 4 years ago, I would have been absolutely terrified of the idea. Now that I dwell on that fact, it actually makes me realise that religion is nothing more that a pacifier that makes people feel safe and part of a huge group. And if you aren't a part of it, you feel vulnerable and afraid of hell. This "follow the herd mentality" clicks into place, and you feel that if you don't become or remain a Christian, you will damned to hell and will suffer for eternity.
Religion is highly based upon fear and control. Controlling people, by making them fear particular things. Fearing God, hell, the devil, sin and anything that is abrasive with religion. Powerful men dictate to us how we should be, what we should and should not do and how we should do them. Everything about organised religion is very dominative and controlling.
Christianity has never been something that I was given the chance to judge for myself. It was a religion that I was constantly exposed to. My sub-conscious, while I was growing up, was being fed all this religious dogma, and it became almost my second nature to never, ever disagree with it. It was like one of those stories in the news that you ocassionally hear. Ones about children who grow up with wolves or chickens at an early age due to abuse, and then grow up to mimick the animals, and not act like humans. Why do they do that? Well, it's because the mannerisms of the animals around them, are all that these childrean have been exposed to, therefore is all they know. Religion for me was like that. I didn't have any outside knowledge about any other belief. All that I was fed was Christianity, Christianity, Christianity whilst growing up.
This type of dogma and control that circulates religion irritates me. Some of these Christians just can't wrap their head around the fact that someone can actually believe something other than Christianity. No one can disagree it seems. All there is to believe or care about or preach, is Christianity. Nothing else is true, nothing else can be true.
I've had enough. I'm no longer a Christian. I haven't been a Christian for a few months now, but I'm taking the time to formally announce it. I disagree with too many aspects of Christianity and religion in general, and I don't believe that I have to feel obligated to put my faith in something which I just don't consider true.
Believe what you want to believe.
Well said. When I read this, I don't see someone who is prideful, rebellious, or guilty of any of the typical "sins" you might be accused of. It is great to see someone who simply wants the truth, regardless of any consequences.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience, far too many people just don't seem to care.