Give me all the arguments against abrahamic religions and Catholicism. I'm trying to swallow that pagan pill.
those 3 religions were created to control population first and improving it second... a distant second. but thats just my opinion.
No, learn to think for yourself.
>>19138019
>Give me all the arguments against abrahamic religions and Catholicism. I'm trying to swallow that pagan pill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMEHnkTpg-E
>>19138019
>Give me all the arguments against abrahamic religions and Catholicism. I'm trying to swallow that pagan pill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y_1ZwOPPkk
>>19138019
It's super simple. If God truly does, as the Bible claims, know the end from the beginning, then he would have known during the early stages of Creation that the Fall of Man would occur. So that means one of two things, either everything is according to plan, which means we're being punished for doing exactly what we were supposed to do, or there is no plan and God is fibbing about how powerful he is. Either way, the Bible is misrepresenting a heck of a lot, which means it can't be inerrant.
Jehovah started out small, as the god of Abraham, the patron deity of a group of Semitic nomads. Their success, in hindsight, looked like predestination, so they retconed him as the only real god, and therefore the creator. That had the side effect of making him appear to be fantastically petty and tantrum-prone. Then Christianity retconed him further, which made him more satisfying in some ways (God is love and he loves you personally) and less in others (the violence makes even less sense).
Now here's the problem with what you're trying to do: you're looking for excuses to believe what you want to believe, rather than drawing conclusions from what you can observe. You have to do things for the right reasons if you want to be satisfied with them.
>>19140229
>Jehovah
lele i'm an ex witness and I feel like this is good transition for me. I just can't agree with the bible but I believe there is some kinda spiritual force or deity in this world, just not of the Abrahamic kind.
>>19140413
Well, yeah, cults (and the Witnesses are one) are only healthy for people who want to renounce having to think for themselves. Take on a child role and trust in "daddy" to protect and provide. If that's not you, you're never going to be happy in one, and they're never going to be happy with you.
What you should start from is the parts of the Bible you have objections to. Figure out what parts bother you, then figure out what about those parts feels wrong. From that you will be able to infer some things about your own moral structure, independent of the one that was being imposed upon you. From there, you can explore various non-Abrahamic deities to see if they fit with you.
You may find you end up with a nebulous concept of God that's simply benevolence and unseen power. A lot of the church stuff is just baggage.