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There are quite a few good Christians out there. My main problem anymore is just that i have serious questions about some things in the bible, yet when i ask them i am ridiculed or ignored. I have tried asking average people who consider themselves Christians, and i have asked pastors/preachers/priests.

I think the bible is contradictory, and i have been trying to have a real discussion to figure some things out for half of my life. Yet, it seems "Christians" never want to talk if you question what they believe. Maybe i have just had bad luck.

I know exactly what your saying, just the other day I was asked why I'm not christian by some bible thumper. When I started quoting passages to support my theory that most christians don't know what their talking about, he spent about 2 minutes trying to prove me wrong and saying that I had no idea what I was talking about even though he was looking at what I was quoting.

Afterwards, whil;e he was staring at me in shock, I pulled out my "wand", tapped him on the head, and told him "the power of Christ compels ye!!!!"

The look on his face was priceless, so my sister made sure to get a picture, but it might be a while until I get it

Well, I used to be christian for 11 years, going to church every sunday, youth activies every wednesday, the dances on saturday, and even seminary every morning before school. I stopped about 4 years ago (but thats another story) but I still respect them for the most part. Yes I have been wrongfully judged many times since I stopped, and there are many who claim to be christian, who act nothing like it, and furthermore I believe there are lots of non christians out there who act more christ-like than many christians. With all that aside I don't 'hate' or even dislike them. I feel that there is no religion that can work for everyone, but so long as it makes you happy, helps you help others, and help make you a better person, it's the right religion for you. On top of that there's nothing wrong with the religion, just some of the people following it. So I guess in summary, I believe most religions out there are right (except for.. 3 I think) for someone, but none of them is right for everyone.

I personally have nothing against any specific religion,. only the fanatics who believe it is their job to force their beliefs on anyone they come across. I personally follow a system of beliefs that mixes Catholicism and Paganism, but I keep what I follow to myself unless someone asks me or wishes for an explanation.

A likely reason for the large amount of discrimination against Christians is because it is one of the biggest religions in the world, and as such, likely has more than it's share of overbearing fanatics.

by birth i'm Jewish but i don't believe in that and will convert to what i believe in ,Christianity, when i'm 18. if i die before that, will i go to Hell?all my friends know that i don't follow Judiasm and will convert so I can finnaly go to Church and pray...

I feel many people are too hard on Christians (I myself am not one, but I regularly see people abuse Christians).

Yes, the Crusades and Witch-hunts killed 10 million people over the course of 800 years, and yes, they were started by Christians.

Mao Ze Dong's (an atheist) "cultural cleansing" killed 100 million people over the course of about 25 years.

I'm not saying that atheism is wrong, but I think it's a little biased to say that Christians are fanatic. There are fanatics in every organization, religious or otherwise.

you sound like an ex-mormon. :]
because only we use seminary to mean "really early bible study before school."

yes, even though people are too dumb and ignorant to realize it, mormons are christian, i've been one ever since i was born, but now beginning to realize that it's pretty much stupid bullshit from what they're teaching me, personally. yes, i've gone to church pretty much every sunday for the 16 years of my life, youth activites every tuesday, seminary every morning.

i've come to realize that i don't need to really listen to all of it, and they're just trying to brainwash us all into zombie-like things.

i, personally, will not force my old religion on you, since i am now an atheist to pretty much everyone except church people and my family, since my dad would kill me if he found out, and for the fact that i'm bisexual, for that matter, but anyway, if you don't force your religion on me, i will do the same towards you.

and for the most part, many of the other christians i've met are really nasty and hateful towards me. i still wonder why i even tried to be friends with them in the first place.

at least i don't live in the south where it's even worse. i cannot stand being told that i'm going to hell, etc, etc, etc.