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Spent too much time on other forums. pastors.com was horrible and even theooze had more than its share of jock ministers who loved to argue. I have noticed that even some "supporters" of me have turned totally hateful when I questioned the infallibility of the Bible (funny I never forced them to prove its highly boasted perfection that they always hyped) and especially when I question the validity of the high prince of Christianity (Paul) I have found that even cool people get out the steak knives. I was sure I could trust people here. Its the kind of thing that you do when you allow yourself to fall into the arms of a group in therapy. Except that its not falling and being dependent. Its the opposite. Its becoming independent and speaking my mind and conviction. I have never been able to do that on a religious web forum.
I have also noticed that you can tend to develop community on a forum and then when you really decide to speak your mind you find that you were bonding with folks who werent really open to you at all but simply were being "christian" and appearing to like you. I think many churchy people like people...so long as you dont give them a single thing not to like. But that means sacrificing individualism of heart and character to fit in. I am too old to do that anymore. I had to look at Christianity and say I am not like this. And then I had to study to find out why. I figured out that I have heard approx. 5000 sermons in my life. Doing the math I have spent almost two years of my life SOLID in church. That is long enough to see that many Ministers are of the same personality, that they gloss over difficult subjects, that they all proclaim that the Bible is a book of love, that they mix grace and law depending on who gets to be under grace and who they get to condemn under law, that there is a great deal of repression and toxic denial of self. That Ministers were rarely financially successful before they become Ministers. That they tned to get guaranteed checks even when they are home sick for three weeks and tend to get very spoiled and out of touch with the masses (just like the Temple priests) That they promote to leadership people who are relatives of those they have a vested interest in. I have noticed repeatedly and consistently that that in a striking amount of circumstances the VERY PEOPLE who try to follow the rules end up the ones who get hurt the worst.
It is like going to a Casino having studied the rules for poker all your life and then they bring you to the craps table and you look at the rule book and say what the? This doesnt make sense. I am not winning. It says here if I have this set of cards I will win. If I have a royal flush, if I have three of a kind, a full house. I have a full house, why is that guy with dice beating me. There is not supposed to be any dice in this game. Then they call me bitter when I complain about dice.
( I am saying that they SAY the rules are one thing and teach them to you but in reality the business runs by a different set of rules and because of this people who break the rules keep winning)
The system is jacked and fundamentally flawed.
Hateful was probably too strong of a word. Havent noticed that at all on this site. Not once. Sad that the word hateful to me has become common and a weakened term to mean typical christian arrogant responses. It really is a strong word when you think of it. And yet so fitting when describing what happens on "other forums".
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