Religion
In reply to the discussion: A question if you want to answer. What caused you to deconstruct from your religion. [View all]SARose
(1,687 posts)At church every time the door was opened - Sunday school, MYF, youth choir you name it.
Seventh grade Sunday school only three of us attended each Sunday. A new Sunday school teacher walked in the door. He threw away our Sunday schools books; brought in a black board and said Okay - we can talk about anything you want as long as we spend the last 10 minutes on how a Christian responds to the World. You mean no more memorizing the Begats? No more dumb exercises? Count me in.
We talked about everything - is God dead? What does it mean to be the face of Christ to the World? And more. He brought in a Catholic priest, an Orthodox priest, an Imam, a rabbi, and other religious teachers. We studied world religions for two years.
What did I learn? We all basically believe the same thing. The dogma is packaged differently - and thats what most of it is - human teachings not those of the Christ.
The Vietnam War basically ended my participation in organized religion. How can a baptized and confirmed member of the body of Christ support atrocities like My Lai?
I tell folks I am spiritual but not religious.
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