While I was raised Lutheran-Presbyterian, I’ve been an atheist for over a decade.
Why? Because I finished the fourth grade. Taken literally, Christianity is a collection of preposterous stories and hocus pocus. Ethically, Christianity teaches effeminate, sacrificial self-loathing— I’d rather have a beer with Christopher Hitchens than Andrew Sullivan.
Christianity is a leap of faith that many are not strong enough to take. It’s especially hard for the type of people that seeing is believing.
Once you take the leap, you personally experience God in your life.
My husband and I are engineers. We both love science and are the type to only believe things we see.
I took the leap of faith in Christianity, but my husband didn’t. He can’t get over the fact that he can’t touch and feel God. I know he questions this because he thinks maybe God has been involved in some aspects of our lives.
There are plenty of “Christians” that turn me (and especially my husband) off of Christianity. However, the people that are routinely the nicest most self-sacrificing people I know are strong Christians. They are humble and kind to everyone. To me, they are strongest witness to Christ by their behavior.
“Ethically, Christianity teaches effeminate, sacrificial self-loathing— I’d rather have a beer with Christopher Hitchens than Andrew Sullivan.”
So where does your sense of morality come from? If we are descendants of animals, we can act like them as well, right? Why not? From that perspective, right and wrong becomes modifiable and up to individuals because it has no foundation.
Truth is, without God, there is no morality. The result of kicking God out is what you see today in the world. And it will get worse...