Posted on 12/14/2021 10:53:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Nathalie Charles, even in her mid-teens, felt unwelcome in her Baptist congregation, with its conservative views on immigration, gender and sexuality. So she left.
“I just don’t feel like that gelled with my view of what God is and what God can be,” said Charles, an 18-year-old of Haitian descent who identifies as queer and is now a freshman at Princeton University.
“It wasn’t a very loving or nurturing environment for someone’s faith.”
“It wasn’t a very loving or nurturing environment for someone’s faith.”
After leaving her New Jersey church three years ago, she identified as atheist, then agnostic, before embracing a spiritual but not religious life. In her dorm, she blends rituals at an altar, chanting Buddhist, Taoist and Hindu mantras and paying homage to her ancestors as she meditates and prays.
The path taken by Charles places her among the religiously unaffiliated -- the fastest-growing group in surveys asking Americans about their religious identity. They describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular.”
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A surprising number of people seem to worship their religion more than their god.
Hi.
My religion teaches to follow Jesus and be his disciple.
Following Jesus has responsibilities and blessings.
One thing the Messiah said that if you follow Me the powers that be will persecute you, say and bring evil against you, and kill you.
Oh well, time to buy some more ammo.
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Thus ironically, the ultimate protestant bible, the 1611 version of KJV, is more suitable to use as a "Catholic bible" than say, NIV (which contains only the 66 books from the protestant canon and was translated entirely by a team of evangelical protestants).
A New King James Version WITH "Apocrypha" included would be my ideal version for bible study, but I don't think such a publication exists.
They're selling a "King James Bible - 1611 Edition" on Amazon that purports to be a modern 21st century re-publication of the exact original 1611 text. How much the book lives up to this claim, I don't know.
Actually they do still print the KJV with apocrypha, but you have to hunt for them. Some of the prices are outrageous!
I hope I am not mistaken, but were there not songs sung in David’s temple?
I am far from Jewish, so do forgive me if I am mistaken.
Also, a rabbi? I thought it was IIRC, the “cantor” who led the music?
I sense that you have a lot of pent up emotion involved with God’s word. I hope you get all that worked out. There is nothing childish about submitting to Biblical teaching. A transcendent God has chosen to reveal Himself to us in His word and through His son. She obviously prefers a God she made up. That is very common even in churches. Most people would rather make up a God to suit them than submit to the God that is. The only problem with that is that your imagination can’t save you when you die. Only a true and living God can do that.
P.S. How would you know anything about my lifestyle?
P.P.S. The Bible is clear on what God thinks about those things she openly admits are her life choices.
“Government. And we think Christians are idiots.”
Considering the “celibate” obtuse closet cases who ran the church I was raised in, to say nothing of the kool aid drinkers who minimize corruption in said denomination, it’s amazing that there are not more people rejecting religion.
God is not a what. He is the great I AM. He is our creator, not our creation.
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