Wilson Wilson
Member
Hello Forum,
I am from California and joined Religious Forums to converse with others on the subject of Christianity. I grew up Catholic and went to Catholic school and was even an alter boy for a few years. I became atheist into my late teens and have re-examined my position many times since.
I can honestly say some of my views partly came from my childhood Catholic experience. When I was a child we had these elderly priests who had traveled the world as missionaries. These priests had many stories of how they aided others and how others aided them in the process and what they learned from those various people. Each experience related to a lesson in the bible. The lessons that stuck the most to me was about compassion, loving thy neighbor with no judgment with no dividing line.
My ethnic backround is Alaskan Indian, English, Scottish, Irish, Scandinavian and German. Amongst these lines I am more Alaskan Indian in quantum and grew up with customs from this side which comes from my dad. Some of aspects of our heritage contradict Christianity which almost lead to an extinction of it in return for American citizenship around 1904.
I would like to have the connection I had with the Christian god as I did as a child. I always end up feeling as if I am chasing a ghost when I try or perhaps the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus. I also have some unchangeable views that conflict with most Abrahamic religions. I become disenchanted all over again with all the judgments an politics I find in most religions, church's and congregations. I am not saying I judge or dislike those I disgree with that is hardly ever the case.
Thank You,
Wilson Wilson
I am from California and joined Religious Forums to converse with others on the subject of Christianity. I grew up Catholic and went to Catholic school and was even an alter boy for a few years. I became atheist into my late teens and have re-examined my position many times since.
I can honestly say some of my views partly came from my childhood Catholic experience. When I was a child we had these elderly priests who had traveled the world as missionaries. These priests had many stories of how they aided others and how others aided them in the process and what they learned from those various people. Each experience related to a lesson in the bible. The lessons that stuck the most to me was about compassion, loving thy neighbor with no judgment with no dividing line.
My ethnic backround is Alaskan Indian, English, Scottish, Irish, Scandinavian and German. Amongst these lines I am more Alaskan Indian in quantum and grew up with customs from this side which comes from my dad. Some of aspects of our heritage contradict Christianity which almost lead to an extinction of it in return for American citizenship around 1904.
I would like to have the connection I had with the Christian god as I did as a child. I always end up feeling as if I am chasing a ghost when I try or perhaps the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus. I also have some unchangeable views that conflict with most Abrahamic religions. I become disenchanted all over again with all the judgments an politics I find in most religions, church's and congregations. I am not saying I judge or dislike those I disgree with that is hardly ever the case.
Thank You,
Wilson Wilson
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