Feel help: I really struggle and feel so angry with evangelical christianity and can’t resolve it in myself. - Help.com

it can be difficult to reconcile faith as such with the behaviors of those who profess to be faithful. The best I can tell you is. examine your faith in god where do you feel it is, and where do you want it to be. Use god and your faith in god as your example. The general consensus among the christian community seems to be that god is perfect, the people who worship him however are not. Don’t let other peoples lack of ability to live what they profess to believe rob you of your own faith. They too are only human.

Why post anonymously, are you ashamed to love God.

You can leave it, no?
Long time ago I left my (catholic) church too … and found Zen Buddhism which made me really happy.

What I hate most of all are the bigoted moralizers with their insincerity and duplicity — in Christianity (as well as in Islam).

it is full of contradictions and there is a nasty side to it too. but in matters of religion, you can decide for yourself what is important. if religion gets stuck in its own pile of dogma, it will suffocate itself, rot from the inside out.

FatB.Three wrote:
Why post anonymously, are you ashamed to love God.

I do not ‘love god’. I love cheese, my husband, sitting in the sun with a good book. God just is.

Zirbel wrote:
You can leave it, no?
Long time ago I left my (catholic) church too … and found Zen Buddhism which made me really happy.

What I hate most of all are the bigoted moralizers with their insincerity and duplicity — in Christianity (as well as in Islam).

Yeah, i’m over it Zirbel. Truly over it. I just like to have a rant about it now and again. Quickly learning though that having discussions with these kinds of people is like repeatedly banging ones head against a wall.

MarlinTheFish wrote:
it is full of contradictions and there is a nasty side to it too. but in matters of religion, you can decide for yourself what is important. if religion gets stuck in its own pile of dogma, it will suffocate itself, rot from the inside out.

Marlin, that is my view completely. Though i kind of view it as a vacuum of vast nothingness - white noise - it just bothers me as it kind of seems to be spreading like some kind of cancer.
Suddenly in everyday life we stummble accross thesee people and they are bigotted and quite dangerous to some vulnerable people. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO reasoning or ability to see a different point of view or even move a few degrees to recognise any other kind of life as valid, good, worthy or wholesome.

I love peoples comments. Marlin, Zirbel. It is good to beable to hear the view of others.

Zirbel, i have a stone buddha in my garden and although i don’t practice and disapline. He brings me peace and stillness.

You should try out Zen Buddhistic Meditation (ZaZen).
If you tell the place where you live, I can tell you where you could have a try.

some people, in their effort to be righteous and godly, actually seem to be denying life and god.

good luck

Thanks Zirbel. I will look that up perhaps in the future. x I live in the uk. x

MarlinTheFish wrote:
some people, in their effort to be righteous and godly, actually seem to be denying life and god.

good luck

Thanks. :)

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