Rod wrote:
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> Look, I'll play it straight from the chest here. I don't believe in
> god, I did once and found myself to be misled and screwed up. I do
> believe there is something out there; thiongs going on that can't be
> explained. People seeing, for lack of a better term, "ghosts", and
> some hard evidence captured to sup****t this. Is their another world
> beyond this life ? yea, I'd like to think so, but what I hope for does
> have any bearing on reality, but that doesn't mean I'll accept with
> any amount of grace Christianity's beliefs. We are just at the edge of
> trying to find the truth, and unless science enters in an participates
> in the search we will all only learn what the amateur researchers
> find.
I'm sorry that you felt misled and screwed up by Christianity. In part, I
can relate, as I left the pentecostal charismatic movement for hard
athiesm
as I just couldnt stand the hypocrisy and BS that was being preached &
practiced there. Its been a winding path back, but my 'beef' so to speak
wasn't with God but with some Christians. This is why I explored Wicca
andl
earnt alot, and am now more along the Quaker path.
Whilst Quakerism was based on Christianity, and hte majority of Quakers
are
Christian, the liberal side of Quakerism also has athiests, thiests (those
who believe in God but not much else), Deists (those wo believe that a
Creator God made the world but is no longer involved in its day day to
afffairs) and even Wiccans.
If you wanted to become a Quaker, you wouldn't need to accept any
Christian
teachings, although perhaps you might end up seeing that some Christian
beliefs are simply common sense and/or universal in nature, and shouldn't
just be rejected simply because they also have the "Christian" label.
Yowie
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