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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, we just go on Easter and Christmas to shut up our parents. We don't believe in the religion and are not happy being there.  [/quote]

This is how I feel. [b]I just don’t believe in [/b]any the whole death/resurrection or [b]virgin birth stuff.[/b] I think religion was invented because people need that comfort and meaning in their life and are scared of death. I like the tradition and community but I just feel like a fraud in church. I go because I don’t it would be WWIII with my parents. [/quote]

Right? We all know Mary was raped. Also, how intelligent could Jesus have POSSIBLY been? He was an uneducated carpenter raised by a teen mom.  Nobody's ever said he had a particularly high IQ.  So we're just supposed to believe he was hella woke?  At most he died at 33. I just don't buy any of it.  And the idea of dying for other people's sins?  I mean come on. We don't even agree on what is and what is not a sin. [b]And one person dying for another person's sin does NOT absolve the first person of committing said sin[/b].

I go to church once or twice a year to avoid a fight, but damn if i don't sit there rolling my eyes at this stuff. Love thy neighbor, but only if they follow your way of living? Nope. [/quote]

It does if that "person" is God in the form of man. Which is kind of the whole point. 
But I suspect that's not really why you posted.

I was raised as a church-going Christian and now only go on Easter/Christmas, which is weird since we used to sort of roll our eyes at the Easter/Christmas Christians when I was a kid. (Just being honest that I get OPs underlying attitude, but also understand that it isn't a very nice one.)
Somewhere along the way, I started to question a lot of the tenets. Mostly when I was reading things about the beliefs of the LDS church and beliefs of Scientology (totally different, I know) and found myself scoffing "who would believe [i]that[/i]!?!??" in this kind of superior way, and then realizing "oh wait..." about my own religion requiring belief in some pretty "out there" miraculous happenings that sound sort of insane if you weren't raised to believe it was true. And then it became harder to defend myself from doubt. What makes faith in the "crazy stories" of MY religion more believable or more valid than theirs??

Anyway, I find myself wanting to believe. But now I'm just caught in the middle and trying to figure out if it's okay for me to just follow the teachings of Christ in terms of how to be a good person in the world without actually subscribing to some of the more wild claims. And I find myself teaching my children to love the way Christ taught us to love God and love others and avoiding the other trappings.

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Pp you’ve never critically examined the Christian faith. It can stand up to scrutiny. Scientology and LDS teachings cannot. Go read “The Case for Christ.”[/quote]

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