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[LuciaDisturbed]

Oh ok....just thought that you might find Unitarinism helpful....it's not really about being part of a specific religion or deonomination.......more like "all or nothing" They are very openminded and libral....awesome!

I just don't want to be part of anything resembling any kind of churches right now. I know Unitarianism is all-inclusive and quite nice as my own grandmother has already told me about it, but I still do not want to be part of any such thing right now. I just want to be free. I do not want people who get into what or who I am or what I do or what I like or what I believe in just because they do not agree with me...I just want them ALL to FUCK OFF and BACK OFF...simple as that. My last church kicked me out in 1999 for going to a dyke bar the night before cause somebody got jealous and snitched on me. But I am glad they kicked me out anyway as I was looking for an excuse to stop going without feeling guilty and having to answer to any members of the church as to why I wanted to leave in the first place. They kicked me out, and that simply meant I no longer have to go, and I felt really happy! I was VERY tired and sick of hearing about how I would "go to hell" for just about everything. It got really humiliating most of the time. They practically crucify you for everything. It was really painful and it kills your self-esteem. I never want to go through that ever again. It was quite psychologically damaging.

It's fine for other people to be involved in religion if they want to be, as long as they stay out of my business and respect me. My fiance is Catholic, but he has respected my desire not to go to church, and I have respected his desire to go to church whenever he wants to, and he goes when he feels like it. He is always 100% free to attend church whenever he wants. It's not a problem for me. We 100% respect each other's beliefs. He has his beliefs and I have mine. We leave it at that. I just want the OTHER people to STAY out of my BUSINESS, and my LIFE is MY business, not theirs.

 

[deafdude1]

LuciaDisturbed,

I just wanted to say I don't put much belief in religion and don't attend any religious services. I do believe in God and respect the religion of others and let them celibrate their religion but I live like an atheist.

I am big on science, facts and logic myself. Anything that can be proven, debated or researched, I love. Religion is just faith and well, I do have faith but I don't care to be preached on or to talk about heaven and hell. I do believe in heaven and hell but it's up to God to judge, not me. Do good deeds on earth because you want to stay out of trouble and jail rather than worrying about hell.

 

[Lighthouse77]

I don't think Red Cross is a religious organization...at least it does not ring of one as its name does not indicate a religion of any kind, just that it means it's a organization that helps these in need, including medical needs (donating blood, etc - the Red Cross symbol reminds me of the cross that some emergency rooms use and ambulances use - something about the color red indicating blood/medical help and the cross indicating "help"). As far as Samaritan Purse, never heard of that one, but I do shop at Salvation Army when I am in the downtown area which is a great thrift store that does not have much of a religion attached to it (or at least they do not make their religious agenda obvious and do not preach to me at all).

When I lived in MN I got almost my entire wardrobe and 1/2 of my groceries every month from Catholic Charities. They're great - they give you unlimited amounts of clothes (at least they did up in St. Cloud) that you can choose from what you want, no amount limit. And as far as the food, they give PLENTY...more than I ever needed. They gave me like $150-$200 worth of groceries every month. And they never preached. Too bad we do not have that organization near where I live now, because sometimes they do get exotic foods that most food banks do not get - sometimes real nice restaurants donate their unused food to Catholic Charities at the end of the day and that is how I got a very big box of very large portobello mushrooms one time! And I loooooooove portobello mushrooms! Those mushrooms were the perfect size for large vegetarian burgers - I am not a vegetarian but I LOVE Portobello Mushroom Burgers!

I'm just saying that you don't have to avoid them because they want to help. Sure, they may have a beliefs but so do you (you are anti-organized religion.. btw, they are not organized religion as people make it to be, they are just a group of people who agree with each other and meet together in a church, kinda like how you meet other deaf people) .

It's like me snubbing atheists if they want to save my life. all of us are humans, that's all.

I should warn that there are a few churches who only help their brothers and sisters in Christ in trouble but they also believe in donating their time to God. That is they are not concern about their health and troubles , they care about is being with God and can't wait to go to heaven to be with him. So if you are not a believer, you don't need to bother going unless you are spiritually trouble and have questions about the bible. that's where they will help you. Independent Baptist is one of it but independent means they don't have an organization, that is one IFB church believe one thing but the other does not. One IFB does not speak for the other IFB. they are independent from each other and yet they believe the the fundamental of the bible. Which mean there are a few IFB who will help outsiders in need while others believe they should focus on the members of the church who are in need.

 

[LuciaDisturbed]

I'm just saying that you don't have to avoid them because they want to help. Sure, they may have a beliefs but so do you (you are anti-organized religion.. btw, they are not organized religion as people make it to be, they are just a group of people who agree with each other and meet together in a church, kinda like how you meet other deaf people) .

It's like me snubbing atheists if they want to save my life. all of us are humans, that's all.

I should warn that there are a few churches who only help their brothers and sisters in Christ in trouble but they also believe in donating their time to God. That is they are not concern about their health and troubles , they care about is being with God and can't wait to go to heaven to be with him. So if you are not a believer, you don't need to bother going unless you are spiritually trouble and have questions about the bible. that's where they will help you. Independent Baptist is one of it but independent means they don't have an organization, that is one IFB church believe one thing but the other does not. One IFB does not speak for the other IFB. they are independent from each other and yet they believe the the fundamental of the bible. Which mean there are a few IFB who will help outsiders in need while others believe they should focus on the members of the church who are in need.

I don't want to belong to any church or religion or anything. I just want to live the way I do, free. I do not need people to tell me what to do, what not to do, and I most certainly do not need a bible to tell me what to do with my life. I can take of myself. Like I have said in a earlier post...BACK OFF. Please. Y'all are more than 100% free to attend whatever church you want to go to, 100% free to be part of any religion, you are entirely entitled to all of that, and to believe what you want, but please LEAVE ME ALONE. Please respect my wishes not to be part of anything having to do with beliefs, religions, and deities.

With that said, this thread is getting off topic anyway and if we keep up talking about religion this thread will be locked, as the religious forum has been closed until further notice, and no religion discussions anywhere on the forum are allowed until further notice, as per Alex the Admin of this forum. If you want to keep this thread going, please get back on topic and stop talking about religions and churches. Thank you.