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• I need someone to talk to. posted (6 months, 2 weeks) ago
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• Nevermore.
  

  For what it’s worth, I used to be exactly like you. Really. I was a Christian and a philosophy major. I went to a top tier school, and prided myself on the fact that my faith answered questions that most philosophers died never knowing the answer to. It was so simple to me, and I used to have long, enjoyable, but heated arguments with my atheist and agnostic friends about the transcendental reasoning for the existence of God.
  
  And then, one day, I looked at what I believed, and I realized I was deceiving myself. I had swallowed these answers, because they had been fed to me. I had used whatever meager intelligence and education I had received to construct the rationalizations for them after assuming them to be true, the most egregious error a philosopher (or free thinker, for that matter) can do.
  
  I simply could not justify my beliefs anymore. I couldn’t believe in a God that sent people to hell who he had created to be imperfect. I couldn’t believe in the moral accountability of people who never asked to be born with a corrupted nature or an unjust environment. And finally, I couldn’t accept that the answer to salvation was an affirmation of a question half the world has never heard of.
  
  I rejected it all, and I’m still picking up the pieces, but for the first time in my life, I can say that I’m trying to earnestly find the truth, rather than the reasons to support what I assumed it to be.
  
  As for you, I don’t know where your path will lead. I won’t argue with you about your faith. I will tell you that believing is doing. If your faith is strong, then you should act on it. If you believe in prayer, pray. If you believe in helping others, then find a way to do so.
  
  As for me, the only belief I will never give up is that it is imperative to do the right thing, whatever that entails. I have given up believing in moral accountability, but I -do- believe in morality. Actions are moral. People are not. As such, I try my best (sometimes miserably) to live a life that is dedicated to others. Good luck to you in your own travels.
  
  P.S. Remember 42 is the answer. The most important thing is to ask the right questions. ;)
  - written 6 months, 2 weeks ago

• I need someone to talk to.
  

  >_< There wasn’t anything controversial in that… just my email. I guess that set it off… *taps foot*
  - written 6 months, 2 weeks ago

• I need someone to talk to.
  

  Ack, it didn’t post?
  - written 6 months, 2 weeks ago

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