[ SECRET POST #2999 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2999 ⌋

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Comments

[sarillia]

I'm a believer but I share that same thing where I don't think I could consciously change what I believe or don't believe. I don't understand when people act like it's a choice. Performing certain rituals and supporting certain institutions is a choice but I don't see how the beliefs themselves are a choice. It feels to me like it just comes down to what makes sense to you. I know atheists who think they would be happier if they were theists and I know theists who think they would be happier if they were atheists and none of them have been able to truly convince themselves of the beliefs that they think would make them happier.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

So, I'm a (Christian) believer, and in my church, we used to be taught that the Bible says we absolutely have a choice to believe or not.

Opinions in my church now differ on what happens if you choose the "or not" option -- I flail and scream against our relatively recently-imposed Evangelical overlords leaders who now bash on and on about "hell" because that's something we were never ever taught, and is unbiblical to boot. But, the main takeaway for me is, I believe God created all humans with free will, because the idea of a loving God that wants people to choose their own destiny is incompatible with this idea of "you're either going to heaven or hell but we don't know which one, and you've got no say in the matter, and even if you're a serial killer, if you're saved, you're going to heaven" that seems so popular in Evangelical circles these days.

(I will refrain from the "there's no such thing as "heaven" and "hell" in the Bible debate. Provoke not thyself to anger, etc., anon.)

[sarillia]

Your interpretation is more fitting with my own view of God but it's hard to reconcile with people I've met who sincerely want to believe but just don't.

[(Anonymous)]

lolll don't even get me started on Evangelical theology

it's like they found it behind the couch