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  • February 1, 2018 at 6:02 am #190055
    Tannhauser
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    As a soon to be ex-Christian, I despise Christianity for the false hope it gives to believers, for the false hope it gave to me. Humanity has been discovering this for quite a few years now, which is why the churches are emptying. And good thing too. Soon, Christianity will fall from its lofty perch to be relegated to the Myths and Fairy Tales section of the library. I think it would be good if The Bible, with all its fantastical stories that often flout the laws of nature and physics, should be seen as a period piece of antiquity, rather than absolute truth (which it clearly is not).

    You only realise the utter absurdity of Christianity when you come across real adversity, only to find that the magical, Biblical God is nowhere to be seen, and that you are on your own. I have discovered this in my personal life. In my very darkest hour I was ON MY OWN, with zero support from parents, the parish priest, the doctor, and especially from Sir Godford All-fucking-mighty.  It’s all a load of shit.

    “There’s only two rules in life, what a man can do, and what he can’t do”.-Jack Sparrow.

    These are the only two rules worth knowing. Sermon on the Mount? Fuck that, it’s not even remotely true. The meek do inherit the earth though, in a plot six feet deep. But really, the rich, the egotistical and the greedy, they are the ones who REALLY inherit the earth. See what I mean about Christianity not being founded in any sort of reality whatsoever?

    “The play is the tragedy Man, and its hero the Conqueror Worm”.-Edgar Allan Poe

    Best wishes,

    Tannhauser.

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    February 1, 2018 at 2:49 pm #190189
    Peter
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    Sorry to hear your still struggling with coming to terms with your experience with religion.  It is ok to reject what you have been taught without having to hold on the anger and disappointment. I apologise if I misread the feeling behind your post.

    If your open to the study of language as symbols you might find that fairy tails have a great deal of wisdom. For example, the story of Cinderella changes from a story about being rescued by a prince to a story on how to work through depression.

     

    February 1, 2018 at 6:25 pm #190223
    Karen Murphy
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    Dear Tannhauser,

    I get what you’re saying. These are valid questions many of us have had. It’s hard to reconcile a good God with the adversity and disappointment we see in the world and in our own lives. Did you ever pour out your heart to God and just have it out with Him? He’s not afraid of our anger and doubts and questions.

    I remember feeling the same way some years ago when one of my sons was diagnosed with cancer at age 4.  After weeks and months of sitting in a pediatric oncology ward and seeing all the kids with cancer, some recovering, some dying, all of them suffering, I could have written a letter much like you wrote above. But I just seethed inside. I never said anything to anyone. Then one night I had it out with him. I just let Him have it and left it there. To cut a long story short I felt He gave me a different perspective, and comfort, and renewed courage to go on, and we got through that time.

    I think our problem is that we want heaven here on earth, and this sin-cursed world will never be heaven. No matter what your religion we all experience pain, difficulties and suffering. Jesus said, “I tell you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world, you will have tribulation, but take courage, I have overcome the world”. He knows there will be trouble and problems and suffering. Yet we long for more, for a better place, for justice, love, peace, goodness.

    Jonathan Cahn in The Book of Mysteries writes, “When we came into this world, we entered it with a longing. We longed for milk. We had no idea what milk was. We had never tasted it. We had never seen it. Nobody ever told us that it existed. And yet the longing for milk was there inside our being before we ever had any assurance that it existed. And it turned out it did exist. What we longed for we only knew from the hunger deep inside our being. Our longing for milk passes away, but we find another longing within our hearts, another emptiness, but deeper, a longing for that which the world never answers. We long for the perfect, for a perfect love, a perfect happiness, a perfect peace. We long for that which doesn’t fail, never disappoints us, or grows old. But the world can never answer those longings and they stay with us all our lives. We long for them even though we’ve never tasted them. And our very longings bear witness that what we have never seen or tasted is real. We long for a perfect love because there is a Perfect Love. We long for the Eternal because the Eternal exists and put that longing into our hearts so we would seek Him..and find Him.”  But if we look for the heavenly on earth, we’ll surely be disappointed.

    Best wishes to you!

    February 2, 2018 at 3:02 am #190263
    Tannhauser
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    I am sorry I ever started this post. It was wrong of me. It was my ego speaking.

    I again received energies into my body yesterday (supermoon?) and they left me feeling quite ill. My ego self reacted very badly and became very angry. I’ll be honest, my ego seems to despise God. Perhaps I have been punished with ill-health all my life because I rebelled in another realm. Who knows?

    I came across the Lamentations of Jeremiah this morning. Some things struck a chord with me. He says: “From on high he sent fire; into my bones he made it descend; [] he has left me stunned, faint all the day long”. This was a perfect description of what occurred yesterday. I was burning inside, and nothing would touch it. I drank lots of milk to try to quench the burning, but to no avail. I felt very weak and faint and I had to go and lie down. One thing that does concern me is that the energies seem to be damaging my eyesight.

    So at times I tend to lash out on this forum. If I didn’t vent on here, I would vent at my family, and then the whole thing would come out and they would become angry or frightened. It might do irreversible damage to family relations. And I don’t know why it’s happened to me, and I think it is best contained within the confines of an enclosed order, because they have the support structure in place. Because as Jeremiah laments, God doesn’t really help. He throws you in the deep end and you have to learn to swim! I bet there are lots of people who have gone through this and have simply ended their own lives, because it is basically PTSD x 100! I have gained incredible knowledge though, and I find that part utterly fascinating, being a ‘bookish’ type.

    I am very sorry for my rant.

    Best wishes,

    Tannhauser.

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