The more awareness you all have the better prepared you can be . All the best . <| sep |> I hope it happens to you . And to anyone else who I feel deserves it , really . Which would be , well , anyone else . I like the idea that even those who do not come to fully believe in God will understand all they need to know before they can be judged , so that every single person will get to stand with or against God with the actual knowledge needed for such a choice , and practicing , believing Christians simply begin the Kingdom of God on Earth in advance . Completely agree with everything here . If Christianity is the truth , that ' s what I hope would be the case as well . Where did I speak negatively of other denominations ? I would quote you , but your comments have been deleted . You stated that many modern denominations have been infiltrated by false teachers and are leading people astray . You didn ' t condemn all of them , or call out any in particular , but I felt you were being rather uncharitable towards your fellow believers . Did you see the question mark ? It was a statement that is historically held and that I question . Not a statement I ' m making and confirming myself . I apologize if I misunderstood you , but I can ' t go back and verify what you said since the comment was deleted . ble , whether they actually do or not is a matter of personal choice . You need to make the personal choice of letting go of worldly common sense to have faith in something you cannot see , smell or touch , and more often than not cannot even feel the presence of . No disrespect intended , but if forsaking common sense is a requirement for having true faith , that rather seems like an argument against faith , right ? Yeah I probably didn ' t use the best words there . Sorry . It ' s all good ! I ' m a little touchy on that subject , and I apologize . Thanks for clearing it up , I appreciate it . OK , that ' s great , but I didn ' t say you did . I said you shouldn ' t do that . It ' s great if you don ' t do that ! Those who do that are not just nonChristians , they are antiChristians and absolutely cut themselves off from what Christians believe to be real and to be a person ' s ultimate objective . My point was that I am doing the best to seek the truth to the extent of my limited abilities . Part of that includes dialogue and debate with people who do not share my beliefs . Sometimes I will discuss things with someone with the intent of pointing out unreasonable , false , or harmful ideas that they believe in as a result of their particular Christian beliefs . I ' m not evangelistic , and I don ' t have the ultimate goal of deconverting Christians , but I am happy to facilitate deconversion if the person is receptive . Majority of exChristians I see do their best to convince everyone of how stupid , manipulative , cruel and xenophobic Christianity is . The key words there are I see . Whenever you interact with a minority group , the loudest and most aggressive members will always be the ones you see first and remember the longest . The majority of exChristians are generally quiet and peaceful , and have no particular bone to pick with Christianity . And many of those who are aggressive are only doing so in response to the harm done to them by Christians . I know friends who were kicked out or disowned after coming out as a atheist . I myself have been screamed at and threatened with eternal torture for not believing . I still have to hide my disbelief from many members of my family if I hope to stay on good terms with them , and I live in a rather liberal and secular part of the States . So , when you see some atheists calling Christianity hateful , manipulative , and cruel , please keep in mind that it very well might be the truth as far as they ' ve ever experienced it . I ' m an awful example of a Christian so , fuck off too I guess ? Does that mean we mutually fuck off ? Is this like the Great Schism ? Hey , I ' m sorry I said that . I should have been kinder and more polite . I apologize . I felt rather betrayed because I thought we were having a good understanding and mutual respect for one another , and it was painful to be told that you ' re fine with my beliefs , so long as I don ' t try to spread them . Am I making sense ? I know we fundamentally disagree about the nature of reality , but I would never tell you not to lead others to the truth of Orthodoxy , and I was hoping for the same courtesy in return . I really try my best not to insult or stomp upon Christian beliefs , but being constantly told by Christians that my beliefs are evil is hard to stomach sometimes .