Christians, do you care about me- I am agnostic?
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Yes I care about everyone. But don't worry you will not go to the hell that the churches teach! That place does not exist! I know that you are agnostic, but to find out what the bible really teaches, visit www.watchtower.org. And no one will visit you unless you request it.
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Last night I went to a great agnostic and atheist websit with 20,000 articles, let me see if I can find it...\n\nOh, and d man, being agnostic is not so simple. I am one too, you should open your mind up slightly.
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Why are you so p!ssed off, sounds to me that you are not very secure in what you believe. Usually that's the case when someone continues to say that they believe something they themselves know is ridiculous.  All I have to say is your system of beliefs is weak and unstable your flaired temper tells me that your actually do not believe what you say you believe and it\npisses  you off when someone challenges it. You do not know how to defend it so you throw a childish fit and call names.  Grow up, get a live and believe some thing you can believe in.  God is God and you aren't big enough to believe Him away. He is there whether you like it or not and He is unmovable and will still be hear when you are dead and buried and He will cause the grass to grow on your dead carcase while your soul continues to die in hell.\n\nBe Blessed though you do not believe in God, He believes in you and waits for you to acknowledge Him.
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This is why I am agnostic.  There were just too many unanswered questions for me.  And there was a lot of hypocracy, especially in my congregation.  What's the point of *saying* you believe something when you actually don't?
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I have respect for all people. If you where walking past me and fell, I would help you to your feet. Would you accept my hand if you knew that I was a Christian? I hope you would, but my point is that, what I have seen of your religion, makes me think that you wouldn't. And its not my government, or my God(that I believe is god), that influenced my feelings on this. It's a combination of what I've seen and heard of your beliefs and the actions that make me want nothing to do with your religion. As a Christian I would hope you'd take my offered hand, but I can't bring myself to believe that you would.
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You're completely right. I am agnostic, I dont believe in organized religion as a whole, but I am very interested in learning about religions and why people follow them. I am constantly told that I am going to hell for my beliefs, and that I should pray to god and all this crap.\n\nIf thats what you want to believe and how you want to live your life than thats fine...but why do I have to believe in it too.\n\nTheres so much hypocrasy in "religious" people today. I just think its so wrong to preach about acceptance and unconditional god love, and then go and spit at someone for having a different god than you, or none at all.\n\nYou hit the nail on the head!
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I have quite a few Christian friends.  I think if someone is narrow minded, it would make it difficult.  There are some subjects we can agree to disagree on, but allot of them have similar values as me and the ones I'm friends with don't try to convert me.  With mutual respect, of course it's possible!  :) Would you not be friends with me because I don't believe like you? Or is it all about the sects to you? :P
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I'm kind of a bi-believer :\n\nTechnically speaking I am an agnostic because I can't prove the existence of god one way or the other.\n\nHowever, I am currently working under the assumption that there is no god because of the utter lack of evidence.\n\nSome people just like to sit on the fence, I guess.\n\nA
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Agnosticism is the philosophical view that the truth or falsity of certain claims—particularly theological claims regarding the existence of God or gods—is unknown, unknowable, or incoherent. Some agnostics infer from this that these claims are irrelevant to the meaning of life.\n\nMyself on the other hand, I am a Christian and a firm believer that God dictates everything that happens around me. Everything happens for a reason. I do NOT believe I evolved from prime-apes.\nPeople who are Agnostic obviously have not put enough faith into God, even though the small miracles in their lives everyday like waking up, seeing the beauty outside their own door and being provided with abundance of blessings each day should be enough proof for them that a kind and caring God DOES exist.
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I am an athiest. well know agnostic. well I don't know, but I do not follow any organized religion. I do, however, have respect for every religion that is out there and the people that are involved. If it works for them, good for them. The problem comes when they insist on trying to convert me to their religion(christianity mostly). I can't stand it. I have to figure out what I believe on my own, and I do not feel I need a book to tell me what is right and wrong.\nI honestly believe that the athiests who lash out at christians are jealous. They want to have something that they can believe the way Christians believ in God. The crave it, but push it away, and hate those that embrace it.\n\n\n\n\nI am offended by "smartarse" below me. That is rude.
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I don't believe in organized religion, but I believe in God.  Does that make me a sinner that needs to be saved?
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Not me, I am not completely without faith but I am still too confused on that subject to go either way, so I just dont think about it, but I could really care less how anybody else feels as long as they dont push their religion on me or lack thereof.
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that is your own personal struggle that only you can overcome or strengthen. you have to decide what seems right to you or how you want to pursue your faith. if you want you can ask "god" to answer your prayer. \n\ni use to be a devoted christian and doubted my faith because i felt that the church and the teachings were currupt and not "holy" as they claimed to be. i also struggled with this type of issue. today, im just a happy atheist. \n\ngood luck to you.
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No offense taken hon.  You aren't asking in an offensive way :)\n\nIf I am wrong about being an atheist, and I stand before god, I will hold my head up.  I'll say "I looked for you harder than anybody I know.  I read the bible in its original languages.  I prayed for hours and hours.  If you know all, you know how sincerely I looked.  If you can chuck me into hell, knowing that, then I go with a clear conscience.  Because I wouldn't want to share eternity with a being who could torment ANYone for eternity.  Let alone someone who looked for him so hard."\n\nI would rather go to hell with a clear conscience and a pure heart than go to heaven because I chose out of fear.
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First off, agnosticism and atheism are not mutually exclusive, for the former deals with knowledge and the latter deals with belief.  I am an agnostic atheist, for I claim no knowledge of the existence of any gods, and therefore I hold no belief in any.  You also seem to be an agnostic atheist.  Most people take the term "atheist" to mean "a person who knows there is no god and doesn't believe in one."  This is the other kind of atheist, a gnostic atheist.  Most atheists are of the former, agnostic variety.\n\nThe reason why theists want to debate you are surely many, though I have come to believe through my experience (which is similar to yours) that religious people feel like they are being presented with an opportunity to save someone's soul when I tell them I am an atheist.  You see, many religious people get some wacky ideas about atheists (and gays, for that matter) from their respective churches: that we have no morals, that we eat babies, that gays being allowed to marry will open the door for people to marry their pets (swear on my honor, I heard a pastor at an Austin church say that on TV one Sunday morning).\n\nThey are too used to letting men of the cloth do their thinking for them, and the men of the cloth tell them that their job is to witness to others.  Save those souls, for they know not what they do.  \n\nThe problem with this line of thinking, of course, is that we DO know why we think the way we do, specifically because the fairy tale doesn't make sense.  We pulled back the curtain to find that there is no wizard.  Most American atheists were once believers, and it has been claimed by many an atheist at The Atheist Network (website listed below) that the single greatest argument AGAINST Christianity is The Holy Bible.  There are enough inconsistencies, false prophecies, and flat out lies to get anyone who is serious about searching for truth and meaning to deconvert.  Unfortunately, most people are so weak-minded that they won't allow themselves to admit they may be wrong about their beliefs and so continue their lives under misguded delusions.
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I became a Christian only two years ago, at age 39.  I was raised in an unbelieving family.  I have met many people who feel as you do.  And I have seen the problem from the outside looking in.  \n\nTwo years ago I received a beautiful testimony of the lordship of Jesus Christ, delivered by the Holy Spirit.  From there, I had to deal with churches and christians.  It was often unpleasant.  \n\nChurch services were boring and irrelevant.  Nobody talked about Jesus, or even seemed to be very aware of Him.  People were gossipy, uncharitable, judgmental, sometimes underhanded and just plain cruel.  People were often suspicious and rejecting of me, as if they couldn't accept that somebody could sincerely become a christian without already having been one their whole life.  \n\nMany christians are obsessed with power, authority, and wielding it over others, even while they are saying that they are full of the milk of human kindness.  Just look at what they do in the name of politics--as if Jesus was going to manifest himself either as a democrat or a republican.  What a joke!  Many also think that having money and objects is a measure of their worthiness before God, despite the Bible clearly saying that this is not necessarily so.  \n\nI heard stories from friends who had been taken advantage of financially, sexually, and emotionally by pastors and co-parishioners.  These stories broke my heart.  You probably saw and perhaps experienced a lot of this too.  You were on the inside looking out; I was on the outside looking in.  \n\nHow could I reconcile all this with my testimony?  The great thing is, I didn't have to.  None of this nonsense is Jesus Christ, and quite obviously so.  I only have to accept Jesus as my savior, not this other stuff.  My creed is, "Thank you Lord God for raising my Savior Jesus from the dead.  I pray for His blessing to be mine.  Have mercy on me and my sins in Jesus' name."  \n\nThe Bible tells you what you need to know about Jesus.  Read it with an eye to learning what He said, to whom, how, and why He said it.  You'll see He wasn't nuts about the religious authority of the day, because it was...well, it was a lot like religions are now--full of self-important, money-and-power obsessed hypocrites.  \n\nJesus strongly urged that the individual have a relationship with God, not with a church.  So study and pray and ask God for everything you need, including a sincere and personal relationship with Him, and for a new perspective on your unfortunate religious past.  \n\nFollow what the word of God says about having a relationship with Him, such as loving Him, loving your neighbor as yourself, and serving others, particularly those who are sick, oppressed, imprisoned, and poor.  Don't confuse the rules and personalities of organized religion with your testimony of the salvation you receive from Jesus.  \n\nDo try to find some Christians you can hang with, whose company you enjoy.  Go to church, and try several of them out.  Don't think you have to find the right religion or the perfect church--it isn't out there.  But do stay away from churches that teach nonbiblical doctrines or that tolerate immoral behavior (again, use the Bible as your guide).  \n\nPray for God to take away your hatred, and to give you a spirit of forgiveness towards those who hurt you.  You're not saying "it's okay" that these people hurt you.  What you are doing is laying claim to the fresh start that Jesus offers through forgiveness.  If you want God to forgive you, you need to forgive others.  \n\nAnd realize something about being an adult, which is that you have to make your own way and create your own good character in spite of what obstacles others have thrown your way.  Don't fixate on how you were done wrong, because this is only going to make you miserable, and stunt your emotional maturity.  \n\nChristian churches can be a pain, but Jesus is delightful.  He had such
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i don't feel like i try to push my faith down anyone's throat..... i answer questions with my honest opinion... i hope that i might open someones eyes, or make them question things a little deeper, or help them see something more clearly..... hard to imagine anyone has changed their faith, but maybe some faiths have been strengthened, and some narrow mindedness has been weakened...... btw i am a christian.... :) and there are lots of narrow minded christians that i hope become less narrow minded....lol