PoetPhilosopher
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I'm writing 5 reasons I should be a Christian, and 5 reasons I should not be:
Reasons to be Christian:
1. I have had paranormal experiences before in my opinion. This points to there being a bit more to life than just face value.
2. I find belief in a potential positive afterlife to be a pleasant thing to think about and strive toward.
3. In my pursuit of critical thinking and intellectual honesty, I've learned dismissing things without a valid 2 or 3 page reason, is really not striving my hardest at these traits. And I haven't formed quite a 2 or 3 page reason not to be a Christian.
4. If what we as humans see with our own two eyes is almost all there is to life, I am really quite unsatisfied.
5. If the stories about Jesus were true, he sounds pretty awesome.
Reasons not to be Christian:
1. There are a lot of apparent face-value contradictions among Bible verses, and to explain them away properly and rationally takes a master theologian.
2. Harsh, almost dogmatic views toward the LGBTQ+ community and even evolutionists in the Christian community.
3. Some Bible stories make little sense to me, like the talking donkey.
4. Many of the very most top modern day leaders of the faith do, from experience, really seem to be wolves in sheep's clothing.
5. The divide among even people of the Christian faith. Put a Seventh Day Adventist Christian and a Roman Catholic Christian together, and see if they really agree on much regarding faith. They'd be lucky not to get in an argument. With all this division, how do we know what semi-important beliefs and interpretations are correct of this faith?
Reasons to be Christian:
1. I have had paranormal experiences before in my opinion. This points to there being a bit more to life than just face value.
2. I find belief in a potential positive afterlife to be a pleasant thing to think about and strive toward.
3. In my pursuit of critical thinking and intellectual honesty, I've learned dismissing things without a valid 2 or 3 page reason, is really not striving my hardest at these traits. And I haven't formed quite a 2 or 3 page reason not to be a Christian.
4. If what we as humans see with our own two eyes is almost all there is to life, I am really quite unsatisfied.
5. If the stories about Jesus were true, he sounds pretty awesome.
Reasons not to be Christian:
1. There are a lot of apparent face-value contradictions among Bible verses, and to explain them away properly and rationally takes a master theologian.
2. Harsh, almost dogmatic views toward the LGBTQ+ community and even evolutionists in the Christian community.
3. Some Bible stories make little sense to me, like the talking donkey.
4. Many of the very most top modern day leaders of the faith do, from experience, really seem to be wolves in sheep's clothing.
5. The divide among even people of the Christian faith. Put a Seventh Day Adventist Christian and a Roman Catholic Christian together, and see if they really agree on much regarding faith. They'd be lucky not to get in an argument. With all this division, how do we know what semi-important beliefs and interpretations are correct of this faith?