by SpiceItUp 52 Replies latest jw friends
For lack of a better term, I call myself a Christian. I have no use for religion or churches, myself. I also don't think Christianity has a shining history what with the way they have distorted the Bible and used it to further their agenda of controlling others.
I would have to say I have spiritual values and beliefs, but don't belong to any form of organized group any longer.
Lew
Deist here.
Hi All,
I'm close to TheStar and her view,
In a spiritual sense I have more love for "my neighbor" than I ever had in my life and especially more so than when I was a JW. I appreciate people more and want to help others more. I have come to have a true love for all humanity, something I never possessed before.
As far as the whole God thing, I'm not sure what I believe anymore and have much more studying and research to do before I can completely make up my mind, maybe I never will.
I really don't know how to research the God thing, all we really have is nature and it's both ugly and beautiful at the same time. The bible just doesn't seem to explain anything, just a bunch of history, poetry, puzzles, visions of the mind of some old man, riddles of Jesus, some good principles, some bad ones, dreams of the mind for a future, etc.
I have seen that man is just part of nature, with a little more mental power and that's about it. Whether we are more special than another animal to the creator I just don't know, since we experience the same diseases, have to eat and provide for ourselves, have no more revelation of a God and die just like other animals, I really wonder.
Ken P.
conservative agnostic
I am an atheist, but that describes more what I am not than what I am. I am a humanist and a skeptic.
- Jan
B. Consider yourself pagan KINDA -- I HATE classifications tho, but if you were to classify me...
FOR SURE tho I am very spiritual.
Kissesm
Moe
How come there isn't a classification for Mad Apostate?...I take all spiritual direction from Bedlam, no Bethel. heheh..sarcastic athiest if anything.
Sincerely,
District Overbeer
I didn't see DEIST on your list. I guess I'll just have to write it in.
TimB
E. all of the above (...really f***ed in the head and confused as to what you believe)
This is me I guess except to me it's not really that confusing. Rather it is a lack of available data. I admit that I don't know. I don't think we can know yet.
See my previous post Religious Bigotry and the Divine Puzzle.
(Although I just realized that title sounds a little too much like a C.T. Russell book! However, there are no pyramids involved!)
TheStar:
I agree totally with you. You do not need an organized religion to know peace. Far from it! That is just the way I have chosen to go. I meet with people who also want to learn. The peace does not come from my association with these people--it comes from a very personal relationship with God. I do not attend church for guidance or to be told how to feel or how to act. I simply go because I enjoy discussing the Bible and am fortunate enough to be involved with a group who feel the same way. We do not all agree on all subjects, I tend to be very liberal while the rest of my congregation in general tends to be more right wing. It's not between me and them--it's between me and HIM. I definitely have my own mind and use it daily! In no way did I mean to say that you had to "join up" and "be led" in order to have that peace. Sorry if I didn't state my opinion clearly enough. -----Omie
