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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
It would be good if the people who don't have religious beliefs or who have unconventional beliefs would join in and make this a more interesting topic. I have my own beloefs but I really enjoy reading about other people's.
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Well, some of us already have joined in Willow. I have, and Garinda has, both of us 'non-believers' by the tone of our posts. I was brought up C of E, I sang in the choir at St. John's Baxenden, and when we moved to Southport I later became a member of the Boys' Brigade, which is a Christian organisation first and foremost. However, I always struggled with accepting the Christian faith even so early on in my life. Something just didn't seem right, that you are just supposed to believe all this stuff that seems quite incredible in todays world. It was just too fantastic for me even then.
You know what they say, If you talk to God you are praying, if God talks to you you're a crazy person! We read stories in the Bible which, applied to to-day's world seem absolutely ridiculous. You know, Abraham takes his young son up the mountain to kill him because God told him to. He has him tied and bound and the arm with the knife is raised on high ready for the kill, when God stops him. I wonder how the kid felt about that. Did it change his idea that his father loved him do you think, deep down inside? If I took my son to the mountain today and tied him up, and had the knife raised and somebody saw it happen. Do you think they would accept that God was telling me to do all this? Would that make it OK? I don't think so, I'd be in the slammer in no time and quite rightly so. But we're supposed to read that in the Bible and think it's a great story and what a wonderful man Abraham was because he was willing to kill his son because God told him to do so............? There are many other stories which don't make any sense, far too numerous to list here, I'm sure you know as many, if not more than I do.