28 Formerly Devoted Churchgoers Share What The Straw That Broke The Camel’s Back Was For Them

I went to a Catholic school the first 4 years. After that it was public schools til I graduated. Was not a fan of Catholic school.

I got a job on 2nd shift - 4pm to midnight - and my parents quit forcing me to go.

Um, the bible literally says all of us are sinners. 🙏🥨🙏

Find another church (if you want to). There are many that don't agree with this. My denomination has a lot of gay ministers. If are all made in the image of God, how can being gay be wrong?

I don’t need a higher power to tell me right from wrong. Just don’t be a d**k. It’s not that hard

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What kind of church were you attending? One that didn't tell you that we are all sinners, which is why we needed Jesus to come and die for our sins to be forgiven? If we acknowledge Him as our savior? They never mentioned sin except in regards to your son? Interesting, still we are not supposed to follow a religion, we follow Jesus. So shame on you.

Which century were they from, the 16th?

Testing you for whether you have enough self-control not to immediately clobber the smug prat who said that, maybe.

Why would god test people? If he is all knowing then he already knows what's in your heart. Doesn't make sense at all.

That’s evil.

uh... wtf?

The Catholic church is one of the wealthiest businesses in the world.

Really who woulda thunk it

Cue Joel Osteen

Patriarchy is the basis of the three abramic religions and their myriad schisms and cults. I doubt they'll ever give that up.

My friend was being abused by her husband and the pastor took his side and offered her no help. She left the church and her husband

I'm so sorry you all deserved better. Jesus never silenced women, He appears first and speaks with Mary after His resurrection. He humiliated the men who tried to trick him into stoning a woman. He spoke kindly and directly to her, as he did with the woman at the well, as he did the woman with issue. No where does Jesus treat women as less. Why would he? So then why does a man twist what God does and say a woman is to remain silent? Paul was talking specifically to a certain group of women who at that time were interrupting sermons. Martha and Mary spoke freely did they not? Jesus loves all and wants all to be saved, gasp yes even says! He just wants us to repent and as he gently ( I believe) said to the woman meant to be s****d, go and sin no more.

Treat the others the same way you want to be treated by them. No need of any god/religion for this.

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While I get that's a good thing for people who may be inherently kind or nice. There are many people whose moral compass points directly to the black. Without some form of positive influence or even compulsion, there's little to stop them doing very bad things. History is littered with examples of people whose "interpretation of good and evil" goes no where near the good. Religion maybe isn't the answer for those people. But what is?

My aunt is a born again christian. She used to send us, a family of archaeologists, tapes on how the world is only 6000 years old, or dinosaurs don't exist. Meanwhile, we had literal proof hanging on our wall. The 'pastor' on the tapes would go on about how they can't know how old the world is, because you can't carbon date dirt. Duh. But you know what you CAN carbon date? Carbon.

I am a Christian and I know dinosaurs existed. This baffles me!

I am generally not a fan of religion,but due to my mothers preacher (American baptist that came to Germany as a missionary) I realllly hate the baptist bigotery. The kids were not allowed at public pools because of naked skin, the daughters had to wear knee length skirts and cover their shoulders,.... but ego shooter games etc were fine. (nothing against the games but I'd rather my children saw shoulders than shot off heads) I finally managed to skip church and church camp at about 13 by not stopping asking "why???" for every stupid thing they taught in youth group and sitting silently during songs and prayer. ... years after the death of my mother and her ex / my father my sister told me that my father tried to get her to leave the church because he felt is was a cult.

Religion is usually viral. Well done buddhism.

What was that the pope said when he toured through the US about the churches here, "They have replaced faith with ideology."

If there must be religion, I prefer to view it through the lens of "god helps those who help themselves". It's not about getting a free fix for all your problems, but the comfort and inspiration to cope with/fix them yourself.

"Rely on God and don't want to fix their problems" is one of the crucial problems with all religions. It is easy to think "well, God will send him to hell" and do nothing. But sometimes, a good beating with a stick is way more effective.

I never did believe in their God. My bs detector kicked into high gear the first time my parents hauled me to church.

Same. I got given a copy and I pretty much read the entire thing. I came away with the conclusion "wow, the god depicted in this thing is HORRIBLE and I want absolutely nothing to do with him".

When I was young and trying to make sense of things, I read the Bible all the way through four times (four different versions.) What deconverted me was Jesus’ genealogy in the New Testament. It lists Joseph as Jesus’ father. But…..I thought the whole deal with Christianity was that Mary got knocked up by God. I just couldn’t, after that.

I was given a copy of the bible when I was in 5th grade (yes, public school in Idaho). One of the passages said that a S/A victim was to be st on ed to death by the town if nobody comes forward to claim they heard her cries for help. There were also graphic descriptions of cutting up small animals as sacrifices. I'm not sure that was actually a Christian book.