Story on growing up Christian/Catholic and why he changed his mind. Anything that requires throwing away all logic and believing something based on "faith" is going to be personal.
If I was so motivated to write something on how/why I converted away from Chrisitanity, it would have been like this. The logic & focus aspects of his personality are very much like mine.
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My overall religion has effectively become a religion of personal growth. Every year I continue to tweak my beliefs to try to bring them into closer alignment with my best understanding of how reality actually works.
The only reliable means I’ve found for discovering what beliefs are empowering is to test them and compare them to other beliefs.
Yet choosing my beliefs consciously has allowed me access to parts of my potential that I’d never have been able to tap with other belief systems. In most cases I’d have been stuck being way too passive and would have failed to push myself. I’d have been more inclined to accept my given lot in life instead of consciously co-creating it. Because my religion is based on working actively on my personal growth and helping others to do the same, I am driven to take action. Good thoughts or intentions aren’t enough.
Another part of my religion is to strive to become the best me I can become, not a copy of Jesus or Buddha or anyone else. This means spending a lot of time learning about my own strengths and weaknesses and figuring out where I can grow and what I may have to simply accept.
By their words I hear that most Americans are Christian. By their actions I see that most aren’t.
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If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief — always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it.
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