Does anyone ever completely recover from leaving fundementalism? (Sorry to sound like a drama queen)

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Lucianna88	\| Move to Bottom Author
Rank:none Score: 0 Posts: 8 From: Registered: 06/19/2007 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:06/20/2007 2:34 AM) Has any one here got over their doubts completely? Are will there always be those nagging fears? It gets better with time, for me, but I dont know if I'll ever be 100% certain. I just wish I could get out of this mindset of fear, I feel bullied in a way and Im tired of it, since I was maybe 6 or 7 years old Ive been worrying over damnation. Why should a child even be thinking about things like that?? But even now as Im typing this Im worried that Im wrong and will end up hell. Im fed up.

snakechic	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 1#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:3462 From: Registered: 11/02/2004 Time spent: 1846 hours	(Date Posted:06/20/2007 3:49 AM) Hi Lucianna I've enjoyed replying to your other posts....but I make this a more formal welcome!!! By..'their doubts'.....I take that to mean ..whether or not I've done the right thing for me by chucking away christianity and avoiding it like the plague.....and got rid of the silly hell stuff. YEP! ABSOLUTELY!!! I'm 100% sure I don't want to be a christian.!! I don't believe in the super...natural. I also don't need to develop any kind of 'inner' god of super love relationships ..but prefer to focus on 'real' relationship building with real live people & without all that fake 'loving you in god' bullshit. There is so much good stuff in the natural world to focus on..why waste my life on something the christians have made up to sell as the 'carrot' at the 'end'. Christianity is nothing but a silly insurance scam against the ancient pagan fear of the dark - death! Works well doesn't it.....you can un work it too..! I grew up within SevenDayAdventism...Its a shitty childhood for sure. They don't feed you the 'hell' stuff..but focus more on the 'you are an evil brat' thing..End times...Zombies..Satan..the AntiChrist....................all very scary stuff to a kid. I hated it all!!! DOn't blame you for feeling fed up! -------------------------------------------------------------- In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince people that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy person living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, woman(man) is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation. -- George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God

Shadowself	\| Move to Top 2#
From: Registered: 01/16/2004 Time spent: 1773 hours	(Date Posted:06/22/2007 5:21 AM) Don't worry, the fear will come to an end. Just keep asking questions, reading new information, learning new things, etc. Think of it as reprogramming your brain; it takes awhile to go through and erase old data and replace it with new. -------------------------------------------------------------- A big revelation in my professional training was that humans can learn skills for living and relating. We don"t have to be desperate for a miracle of God to make us decent.--Marlene Winell
	Welcome to The Collection of Flashlights!Wolf-eyes ,your eyes break the darkness!

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