Welcome to the forum Jim
I hope you stick around and we can have many interesting discussions.
The Forum is still in its beginning stages and there are only a few regular contributors - agnostics seem quite thin on the ground and it is good that there is a place where we can gather.
Cheers.
W
I'll stick around. I'm agnostic in some ways but better described as a freethinking, skeptical, disgruntled believer. I don't call myself a 'Christian' anymore because it associates me with too many things and people that I simple don't like.
I've found that the most offensive Christians are Trinitarians, Seventh Day Adventists, Calvinist, Pre-tribbers, and preterist. People in those sects - which adds up to the bulk of Christianity, have driven me right out of 'the religion' of Christianity. It's the people in this debacle of a religion - like John MacArthur, Paul Washer, and the like, that drove me out. Including my nut-case cousin and Pentecostal AOG minister, and my girlfriend's cousin who's an American Baptist minister that drove me out.
Christians are Christianity's worse enemy. All the research from Barna, Pew, and a few others show Christianity going right down the tubes, mostly because of the people in it. My thinking is people are completely turned off with Christianity because television and the internet have exposed Christianity's hypocrisy and foolishness. People like MacArthur and Washer are what I call 'negativity preachers'. I can't stand them. Beggars like Mike Murdock, the Swaggert family, and Ken Copeland make Christianity look like a pile of crap.
Christians are obsessed with pre-trib, which in my view like Trinity, are the most fabricated diabolical doctrines to ever enter Christianity.
Bottom line is there's way too much bad in this debacle of a religion for me to be a part of it. In the past I've been very active in the church. I've been behind the pulpit as an interim pastor for 9 months, a deacon, a trustee, sang in the choir and played music in the church. I'm done with it. In fact, after my cousin teed me off, I burned about 5 bibles, and a host of hardcover research books I've had since the early 70's. Probably well over $2,000 worth of books. The difficult thing is I know too much about this messed up religion and have trouble disconnecting.
