Australian rePublic wrote:Thuzbekistan wrote:X to doubt.
Naw. As a southerner who grew up in a a church of 200 people and who tried so desperately to feel God's presence and to connect to him that I would go into my closet for an hour to two hours every day and read and study my bible and pray to God for some sort of response and fear, due to my calvinist upbringing, that I was predetermined for hell? Nah. I just need more exposure to the bible or Koran. You know what made me atheist? Exposure to other religions and realizing that I believed that all if them were going to hell and a lot if them believed I was. So I studied and read on most religions active in the world and determined that they're all crap, even christianity.
That's because you're doing it wrong. You can't just pay God lip service, lock yourself in yourself in the cupboard, and say "now God, manifest yourself to me"
I'm not gonna explain my whole life to you and say everything I did. Bloody hell.