okay, this is interesting to me.
first a little bit of background on me, i was introduced to jw-ism as a zygote, raised in and baptized at the tender age of 12. i got baptized because my beloved grandfather had just passed away and i was told that if i wasn't baptized i wouldn't get to the new order and i wouldn't ever see him again. no pressure or anything...
i really truly believed everything for the first two decades of my life. really started doubting at 25, left at 26 (they df'd me even though i disassociated myself in a letter to the elders first). i've been df'd for almost six years. much to my family's shagrin, i have no intention of trying to get reinstated. they wouldn't reinstate me anyway when i told them that i thought that the organization was a cult.
i have known for a long time that i was agnostic, i just don't know if god or anything like a god is out there, and frankly, i really don't care anymore. but i have never, ever really grasped the simple thought that i'm not a christian anymore, until i said it in a reply to another thread just now. the thought made me so giddily happy that i just had to shout it out to everyone.
so hey everybody! lol i'm not christian, and i'm so glad!!!
don't get me wrong, there are a lot of christians out there who are humble, kind people and i am happy to count them among my friends. but the breed who are self righteous, pious, and preach damnation to everyone who isn't like them, man, i just don't want any of it. if that's what i have to be saved, i'd rather be unsaved, thanks.
what a relief to know its finally gotten through to me, i've finally escaped the bonds of my childhood indoctrination.
i'm not christian, i'm free, and the world somehow looks like a much more beautiful place because of that today.
just thinking out loud here. anyone else wake up one day and realize that not only were they wanting to be free, but they really were???
fleur
