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Permalink Reply by MaleficVTwin on February 7, 2010 at 2:09pm

Common, I'm afraid.

Permalink Reply by Rosemary LYNDALL WEMM on February 7, 2010 at 8:22pm

Sadly, it's the rule, not the exception.

Permalink Reply by L.E.S. on February 8, 2010 at 1:19am

I stopped believing after reading the Bible and finding that it made no sense. This seems fairly common once people start to read the book on their own. Without a pastor to tell you what to think or what a verse 'really' means it's plain to see that there's a lot of nonsense. There's the actual text, and then there's this whole separate tradition of what the text means. People end up only learning a piece at a time that illustrates a certain tradition, such as the doctrine of the trinity, instead of reading longer passages. They do this because the bible alone is not enough to explain the dogma, and ever since the first century Christians have had to come up with explanations of how such different ideas can be cobbled together. So Christians don't read the the bible because it's confusing and makes little sense without someone explaining and rationalizing it to you. They think it doesn't make sense because they don't know enough instead of realizing that the book itself is full of contradictions and ridiculous ideas.

Permalink Reply by William Young on April 20, 2010 at 12:11am

I agree. After reading the Bible without any outside innuendos, I realized how stupid it was to believe it. I feel that many of these non Bible reading Christians sat down and read it with an open mind, many would see what they believe is trash. If they read it through the eyes the writers, most would see this.