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« on: July 19, 2017, 05:21:40 pm »Message ID: 1155807
I was raised Baptist. Well, more like, it was forced on me. I was made to go to church as a child because, "We're your parents, do as we say", and was pretty much forced into being 'saved' at the age of 12 when my grandparents called the pastor over to their house and had me come over(they lived next door) and 'get saved'. I was 12. How was I supposed to say no to my grandparents? They were an authority figure. But I never actually bought into any of it. And then when my maternal grandfather, who was also my best friend, passed away when I was fourteen of emphysema and possible lung cancer from smoking cigarettes for so many years, I decided Christianity wasn't for me. I kept thinking, "How can anyone believe in a God who allows a good man like him to suffer with such illness for years on end? How can they believe in a God who could cause us such pain by taking him from us as opposed to just healing him, if this 'God' had the power to do so?" Such was the start of my many, MANY years as an Atheist.
Fast forward about a decade and a half, I'm much more mature and much more grown up now. I can think rationally as opposed to with my emotions. I believe there is a higher power. After all, if the Big Bang happened, science has proven that energy cannot be created or destroyed. So the energy that caused the Big Bang came from somewhere. So, I believe there is a creator/higher power, but I am uncertain as to whether it is God as religion states. So I'm... Agnostic, I guess?
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