Is it normal that i'm an atheistic christian?

I am a practical person. I'm extremely young, just starting college, but I am a genius and bipolar... so I can't quite get by on "faith". It just doesn't cut it for me. Sorry!

I've grown up with an incredible, supportive family and friends. My parents were missionaries and have led churches all my life and I'm at a church that really reads the bible and follows through with what's in there, living their faith out loud and leading fulfilling lives.

But... I just... it's hard. Half of me loves God and knows no reason without Him.

But... how prideful, how ignorant, how STUPID for one human being, one ignorant, little human being to say they know it all. How could we POSSIBLY know the meaning of life? If there was a God out there, why would He EVER expect us to know?

There are many, many belief systems out there. One of them is apparently right. There are so many people out there who are earnestly trying with all their might to live a good life and please whatever God they believe in. Christianity says they're all wrong if they aren't sure of "the truth".

How is following exactly what you're told "faith"? People are taught so many things. If I'd grown up in a muslim background, I could be the perfect muslim right now.

It just does NOT make sense that this God would expect us to believe one specific idea. There's so much out there. We're only human.

Yet, the times that I've left it up to God... things really have worked out in my life. Things really do fall into place. My life and others who live for God are testimony to that. (This is specifically living a life specifically by the bible. I have MANY problems with hypocritical, organized religion.)

I'm just so sick of being torn like this all the time. Sometimes I think I'm two different people or something.

I know there's a huge atheist vs. christian argument. I don't think it leads anywhere.

Yet I fight with myself.

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  • ctbpdx

    Agnosticism.

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  • ladeedah

    alright, xinooo, people like me? um... gosh, i'm 16 years old, i've grown up in a background that's extremely controlling, i've been hurt a lot and... wow. okay, just... i'll ignore your comment.

    but to everyone else, thank you. it's been interesting, but i've come to a point where i'm ready to live my life for myself and not feel guilty about it. and i'm happy. :) i was just torn.

    i can't deny the existence of a god, just like i can't understand or know a god that's so above us all. there's some force out there or something, i can't deny that, but that doesn't directly translate to christianity.

    i'm just... happier now. simple as that. i feel free. :)

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  • xino00

    I know what you mean, you just think of the existence of life and living.

    The truth is cult and religion.
    Christianity has changed, some people teaching wrong things while others are teaching the right things.

    People like you, atheist just believe what people worship is God.
    Who is God? what is God?

    If you are a TRUE Christian. You'll learn that we don't worship God but a saviour named Jesus Christ!

    People like you keep talking about God, but don't even know his name!

    Trust me, there's absolutely no point in believing in God because you are not worshipping the right person!

    Just turn your life to Jesus Christ, live his word, do good things and not-bad things and just live your life!
    People like you always think being a Christian is being controlled. No body is controlling you.
    Even though you are an atheist, ain't you being controlled already? You ARE being controlled by the governments and illuminates!

    And we are not bound to find the origin or life unless we reach heaven.

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  • Alaxett

    No offensive to anyone, in my deistic view after much study about what I really believe in, I found that Bible is just a series of make-up story that brainwash and control people, even pope himself. Why should we go back and pray to Him, think everything is fine when bad thing is going to happen to us anyway? Why do most believers, if not all, claim that their way is the right one, while zealots tried to put their belief down our throat to the point that they declared war on us?

    I'm tried all of that bullshit, so I walk on my own path regardless of revelational beliefs. Personally, I believe that God is someone that shouldn't be taken lightly. Heck, there is no proof that He do exist or not, but my reason lead me to acknowledge that God is everywhere in the Universe within us right in plain sight. He did left us something to figure it out on our own, but expect nothing of us.

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  • dave87

    You are intelligent, and you are working out everything about life, the universe and everything but your family%%u2019s views and your upbringing, do not tie together with what you are discovering.

    The reality is, the atheist vs Christian argument, is not an argument, the answer has been clear for some time. If you are a genius then you will work it all out. I can see how hard it is for you. I personally avoid any kind of intellectual conversation with the few religious people I now, which is hard because it%%u2019s all I like talking about. So I kind of don%%u2019t get on with them that well.

    You cannot believe in something you know is not real, if the rest of the world believed in a religion would you follow them if you new it was not real? That stuff about god in your life has no grounding, the other people who live for god, might just have a better life than others. That happens in the world without religion.

    Hopefully that was helpful, it would be interesting to see what you think

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  • stanley_fedoraless

    I think it's very normal to question your faith (or lack thereof). I'm an atheist but sometimes I wonder if there really is a God and I just deny its existence because I'm too afraid of existing forever, the idea of heaven is so terrifying to me.

    Anyway, it's not true that one of the belief systems out there is necessarily right. It's possible that they are all partially right but not completely right and God is OK with that. Or even if one is right it's possible that God would accept belief in others as well anyway, a lot of the major religions are pretty similar anyway (Judaism, Christianity and Islam really seem like basically the same religion to me) and God is supposed to be infinitely loving so I can't imagine it rejecting people because of some minor error in what they believe.

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  • Have fun in hell

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