Fiery_penguin_of_doom wrote...
Along the lines of what Catcher was saying. The religious people usually "western" or "monotheistic" religions tend to assert that they are correct even when they are wrong. You point out a contradiction in their text and they just want to slit your throat. From my vantage point I see a lot of flaws that I think should be obvious to people but, as you already said Pasithea most religions turn the faith into brainwashing of sorts.
For people like you Pasithea I see your conversion as fear that your life may not have a meaning (Assuming it was a near death experience or the death of someone close to you). That is something everybody fears, that their life is meaningless. I'm not insulting you or anything or denouncing your conversion. I'm just pointing out things from my point of view because if you only take your wisdom and knowledge from one source its because stale and ridged. I believe my view is rather balanced because I was able to experience and see the world from different perspectives.
I was born Christian and found that religion not to my suiting because of the contradictions and horrible things mentioned in the rest of the bible that preachers tend to "voluntarily leave out". Sorry, if your god is all knowing and incapable of errors then you can't pick and choose what you want to believe and what you don't. Its the whole "good book" or none of it. There isn't some shade of gray in the middle because I doubt "God" "yahweh" "Allah" or the milk jug put some of those things in there just for the fun of it.
To debunk the "Well a human interpreted the word of god into our language. Don't you think an all knowing god would have known that the person he selected wouldn't get it right?
Well your assumptions are incorrect so I'd avoid doing that again and my experience involving my conversion is one thing I don't to care to share with anyone because I don't like having it scrutinized and analyzed by others.
The problem is that a lot of Christians translations from the original Greek are very, very wrong. (Greek scriptures being the earliest they could find of the Bible...) Honestly, have you seen how many fucking translations there are? xP http://www.biblegateway.com/ Take your pick.
You see God may have picked someone who got it down correctly from the very beginning but over time as other humans came along and started translating it, they translated wrong.
I feel I can pick and choose what I believe and follow. Christians are no longer bound by the old covenant which is the Old Testament so I don't really give a crap what the incorrect translations of Leviticus say anyways. That's the Jewish law, not the Christian law.
As far as I'm concerned all I have to do is follow Jesus's teachings and be a good human being. I don't feel as though I have to follow or believe anything the disciples said after Jesus died and rose again.
I don't follow his disciples, I follow Jesus.