Introduction.

Confident Learner Joined: Jun 16, 2008 Posts: 78

Hello.

I've just joined up and to do so I chose the name, "BornAgainAthiest".

This aptly describes who and what I am.

I used to be a born-again evangelical christian, but now I've seen the light (of the Big Bang!) and have privately and publically rejected jesus. Ahh, what clarity! What wonderful clear-sightedness! What a liberation!

One great advantage of shedding this millstone of irrational beliefs is that no christian can say to me, "I'll pray for you, brother" and neither can they try to bring me back to the one, true faith. According to them (See chapter 6 of the book of hebrews in new testament) I'm beyond help. So when I engage in debate and dialog with well-meaning, but deluded christians I can do so without being, "dangled over the pit".

What does this peculiar phrase mean?

Well, dangling somebody over the pit is a tactic used by loving and compassionate christians to show their potential convert the fate that awaits them should they fail to embrace jesus as their saviour and god. The pit in this case is the pit of hell.

Let's not beat around the bush here.
The hell they are describing means eternal, infinite agony. Being consigned to hell is worse than any kind of suffering you can imagine - without any hope of escape or release.
What makes me sad and angry in equal measures is that the christians doing the dangling actually believe that they are exercising love and tender compassion by scaring and terrorizing people with this kind of mental torture.

This was done to me at an emotionally vulnerable time in my life (shortly after the death of my brother) and so I embraced the hope of comfort, love and new life with open arms. Thanks guys! It was real nice of you to tell me that my brother, never having accepted jesus, would be thrown into the lake of fire (see the book of revelation) along with all the other damned souls on judgement day.

Do I sound bitter? You ****ing right I'm bitter! I can't count the nights that I cried myself to sleep, haunted by the image of him thrashing in agony in the pit of eternal fire! Let's not forget my futile attempts to evangelize my parents too. If only they would accept jesus they could avoid this horrible fate. The more I tried the more they backed off.

"You're actually hearing the voice of god in your head?"
"Are you sure you're not going mad?"
"Don't you think you're taking all this way too seriously? It's starting to take over and dominate your life!"

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Anyway, drawing a line under this sad episode in my life, I can now say that I'm glad to be free of that nightmare.

I now confidently look forward to taking charge of all aspects of my life with a realistic frame of mind. I've found the love of good woman and can see my way forward to a happy and fulfilled life, free from the shackles of a lie I should never have accepted as the truth.

I'm more than happy to discuss and debate matters in this forum.

I'm also happy to discuss the details of how I came to reject jesus. But be warned! It isn't pretty! Those so-called loving brothers and sisters in christ don't come out of it looking good. I'm sorry, but I can't change the past and I won't whitewash it either.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

BornAgainAthiest.


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