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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I've always been interested in why certain people who live in countries that have a large and accepted secular community (like the UK and, to an admittedly lesser degree, the US) remain faithfull to Christianity. I'm not for a second saying that they shouldn't but I think it's interesting, why people believe in something that I'm sure a number of their friends and peers (especially in the UK) dismiss as at best naive and at worst backward - as Gail has mentioned interms of being treated like 'some ignorant backwoods hillbilly' just because of her faith. Is it a result of family upbringing or does it come from experiencing something specific in their life that makes them believe? Or what? I stress that I'm not criticising any Christians for what they believe, I'm just curious as to why.
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I grew up with a somewhat fanatical religious mom. I believed in god up until my teenage years, when she started taking me to all different sects of christianity. That's where I realize they are telling the same story, and accusing the others of being the wrong religion. I also realized that there is no higher power only me, and whatever happens there is no one that set me on that path but myself. I love the stories that the bible tells but I treated it as a story and nothing else.
And from what I remember of the bible God never said to be cruel to one another. That we are not to judge b/c he is the only one that can do that.