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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you started this thread to confront people who used to be atheists and are now religious? Okaaaayyyy…. No wonder nobody is engaging with you. [/quote]

OP needs to get a life. [/quote]

Apparently the only person who listened to the podcast is the second poster—OP won’t deign to do so.

OP doesn’t want to listen, she only wants to criticize. I’ve seen [b]several recent posts by people who said they used to be atheists and had recently returned to synagogue or church [/b]for spiritual reasons, but they obviously aren’t posting on this thread—that checks out, why bother. [/quote]

So what?  There are lots of people who become religious and lots who drop religion.  It's a choice, like many other things in life.   A difference with religion, is that it's forced on many as children, and even as adults, people can feel pressured to be (or at least [i]act[/i]) religious, or be censured.

Luckily, that is changing, as more non-believers make themselves known.[/quote]

So what? This is the actual thread topic.

Have you listened to the podcast yet, or are you intent on demonstrating that you never listen and just criticize?[/quote]

Of course, you - whoever you are - have no way of knowing who I am and what I "never" do.  But it does give you, and maybe some of the dumber readers here, something to complain about[/quote]

We do know these things about you:
- you haven’t listened to the one testimony that addresses OP’s question, and 
- you’re anti-religion (“luckily” and similar language).

So you have nothing to contribute except your distaste for religion. Can I ask you, Why?[/quote]

^^ I meant, why are you here? Why do you bother?[/quote]

People like you make religious people look bad.  I want all the truly good decent, kind, religious people that I know are out there see how someone can twist other people's words and their beliefs into something ugly and hateful.  I'd like at least one of them to say " This does not represent me! This is not the religion I practice!"

Then again, maybe they prefer to avoid this ugliness and just quietly practice their religion.  Can't blame them for that.[/quote]

I don’t know why you worry about finding religious people to apologize for other religious people, and make it some kind of quest to make yourself feel better?  I don’t control how anyone else does anything, and that includes the religious practices and or beliefs of others. Even close family members often have very different opinions on these issues. I am not going on an apology tour for random people who may (or may not) practice their religion in a way you don’t like.

America has religious freedom. Neither you nor anyone else has to be religious. How other people choose to worship isn’t your business. Not should you be on a perpetual quest to find “religious” people to make you feel better about their religion or how strangers worship.

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