Did you choose your God or inherit him?

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Did you choose your God or inherit him?

1 Thess4
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

Statistics on religious knowledge are dismal for theists when compared with non theists. This indicates that their own religion is not important to theists and they only follow their God out of tradition and do not feel a need to actually know the theology behind their God. So much for a personal God that theists speak of.

This link shows how most Gods are blindly inherited.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYigmGyN2RQ&feature=youtu.be

Religion is primarily an external conscience for those who don't trust their own judgment. They say they do not judge God but only follow him as an external conscience and support any atrocities he perpetrates. These non judging people have judged their God to be good. They do not recognize their own contradiction.

Should theists not be comparing all religions to seek the best external conscience they can find?
Unless of course they have all found a better external conscience in secular government.
If so, why have a religion or tradition to hang on to?

Their religions have thus become without value as theist have already given Caesar everything and have left nothing for God except perhaps, lip service.

You and I wake up and follow natural law. We then proceed to follow secular law till we go to sleep. What laws of God do theists even consider at all during the day?

None that I can see.

Can theists, as users of God or the word as an external conscience, be actually called Christians when the laws they live by are pure secular in nature?

Should Christians call themselves Secularist, as that is the law they live by and not the laws of bible God?

Theists then seem to be hypocrites and this is good. Let’s thank the stars that theists are not foolish enough to follow their God and his laws. We could not afford to jail that many fools.

I submit that if you follow a religion that you did not actively choose, you are likely not a true believer in any sense of the word.
As others see this hypocrisy, they learn what it is like to be as you are and you are actively helping to kill your own religion.

Thanks for helping those against your own to reduce your numbers.
Like Noah and the God you follow, if you belong to one of the myriad Abrahamic sects, you are a traitor to your own kind by your poor example.

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Johnfromokc

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LOL...Mine was genetic. But I chose my own when I grew up:

http://www.venganza.org/

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I was born into a Seventh Day Adventist home... my parents ended up leaving that church and going to more evangelical churches for the rest of the time I was in their home. I grew up going to a non-denominational church, and then went to a few others after getting married. Since then I've largely left the church, though through my own personal searching, I still believe in the tenants of Christianity, but I feel little to no need to have anything to do with organized religion. I've had way too many bad experiences with churches over the years, and I'm done with them.
 

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I'm not a religious guy, haven't been to a church in years, but I did "inherit" my religion from my parents.
 

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Is it only me who sees blue lines under freaking everything on this page?


Maybe I'm pregnant.
 

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Is it only me who sees blue lines under freaking everything on this page?


Maybe I'm pregnant.

No, I see it too... looks to be something fucked with the thread, as no other threads seem to have the issue. It could potentially be something with the YouTube tag, since it all starts after the YouTube video was posted.
 

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I was born into a Seventh Day Adventist home... my parents ended up leaving that church and going to more evangelical churches for the rest of the time I was in their home. I grew up going to a non-denominational church, and then went to a few others after getting married. Since then I've largely left the church, though through my own personal searching, I still believe in the tenants of Christianity, but I feel little to no need to have anything to do with organized religion. I've had way too many bad experiences with churches over the years, and I'm done with them.

Why stick to Christianity with such an atrocious genocidal O T God who would rather have his son murdered than find a better way of forgivinfg sins and a N T God who is full of unworkable rhetoric?
There are more moral God's out there to choose from if you must have one.

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I'm not a religious guy, haven't been to a church in years, but I did "inherit" my religion from my parents.

What made you drop it. Some blame trauma of hell that parents use as a club and unnecessary guilt. Original sin and such that kids are saddled with.

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DL
 

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What made you drop it. Some blame trauma of hell that parents use as a club and unnecessary guilt. Original sin and such that kids are saddled with.

Regards
DL

I read the bible and it just didn't make sense to me, I'm not an atheist now or anything, but I'm not actively religious either.
 

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Why stick to Christianity with such an atrocious genocidal O T God who would rather have his son murdered than find a better way of forgivinfg sins and a N T God who is full of unworkable rhetoric?
There are more moral God's out there to choose from if you must have one.

Regards
DL

I made my decision based on my own searching, research, and other means. I'm not going to dignify the other remarks with a response, because they'll fall on deaf ears anyway.
 

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I read the bible and it just didn't make sense to me, I'm not an atheist now or anything, but I'm not actively religious either.

Spirituality, unhindered by dogma, has 10 times the value than any believer stuck in dogma.
Never let some half baked believer ever tell you he is closer to God than yourself.

He would be wrong.

Regards
DL
 
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