When you say you "lost your faith" do you mean that you quit believing in God, or that you quit believing in the system of Christianity you were raised in?
Because I can't really comprehend not believing in God, although I certainly can comprehend not understanding God, because I don't understand God at all. The concept seems quite absurd, and yet, no more absurd than the fact that I exist at all. I firmly believe in God.
But the various organized versions of Christianity seem quite contrary to anything Christ was talking about in the Bible, while the Old Testament is, by and large, silly, what with giants, and begatings, and smitings, and concubines, and all the rules and regulations about what you can eat and what you can wear and so forth.
I like Thomas Jefferson's Bible, where he went through and excerpted all the things that Christ said, and put them together, and left out most of the rest. |
