Like many, I have not always been an atheist... actually I grew up believing in the christian god, as a result of being raised primarily by my fundamentalist grandmother, who is a southern baptist. A few months after my 21st birthday I became a born-again christian... that experience lasted only three years, fortunately. When I was attending an evangelical church in San Bernardino, California the sermon was about how different religions (muslim, hindu, buddhism) were wrong, but the pastor also included different sects of christianity (catholic, seventh day adventist, protestant) as all being hell bound. That sermon was the catalyst which sent me on my 'search for truth'. Over the next few years I studied various religions to learn the similarities ...FYI - each is the only 'true way'.
Even after realizing that I no longer believed in the existence of a god, there was still a twang of guilt when I thought about this fact... until I finally realized how my 'guilt' was nothing more than years of brainwashing, in the form of indoctrination... so... alone in my apartment I said the words loud and clear, "I do not believe in the existence of any god - especially the god of the Bible!". That's when lightening struck. (hah!) The minute those words left my lips I felt so free...no more fear of damnation...no more feeling like I was being watched every minute of every day...no more fear of my own thoughts... FREEDOM!
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