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ShadowLiberal

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2. The numbers are probably worse for Christianity then they appear by those numbers
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 11:46 PM
Mar 2012

Of the 41.1 million Christians I'll bet a sizeable minority of them, say at least 5 million (hard to make an educated guess without #'s on church attendance among those Christians, but could be quite a bit more then 5 million), are just calling themselves Christians because they never really thought too much if they really believe in God, and just think of themselves as Christian because they were raised that way.

I used to be the same way, scared to speak out or even think it through at all if God existed, because you're not supposed to, and doing so would be sinful according to the church.

Eventually I started to do so anyway around the time I turned 18, and realized I barely had any belief in God at all. Still, it took me another year or two, till I decided I didn't believe at all. What pushed me over the edge was disagreeing so much with Christianity preachings on social issues (especially religious right politicians talking about those issues), and the realization that if God was like the Christian religious right really claimed on those social issues I'd probably be going to hell anyway. I mean there's so many sins in the bible it's impossible to go without sinning constantly when even thinking things can be sinful. I can't be the only one who thought this way, as church attendance declined nationwide when Bush was wrapping himself around the religious right during the 2004 election.

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The first domino to fall? laconicsax Mar 2012 #1
The numbers are probably worse for Christianity then they appear by those numbers ShadowLiberal Mar 2012 #2
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Damn. I'm jealous. Arugula Latte Mar 2012 #4
They sent all their religious nutjobs here to colonize the America... white_wolf Mar 2012 #6
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