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While a lot of what you say may be true. You have to know that your condition makes you overly sensitive to the prevailing atmosphere of concern. I know that may not help but it is something to keep in mind. Keep telling yourself that this won't be forever. Your Constitution wasn't written to...

You sense something demonic about everything.

I don't see that it is misshapen, bruised, or crooked. It is just a constant balancing act between what is good for the group as opposed to what is good for the individual. what is not good for the group is labelled sin. One could equally point to people who are warped toward selflessness; and...

In the Cloud of course.

So God didn't create the world around us? We don't see his majesty reflected in that creation? It's just pretending to be of God?

Any evidence of this 'Sin' nature, as opposed to just nature?

There is no need to be fearful. You are uncertain because you have released those things that gave you comfort and structure. Be good to yourself and you can remake your life in a positive way.

I left because I could no longer believe what the Bible taught. I no longer believed the story of Sin as an excuse for human action or the need for a sacrifice to god to appease him. Especially when that sacrifice was apparently God himself. I no longer believed that Jesus was God incarnate. I...

What answers do you have for these questions?

It seems to me that we have no way of knowing this. We can only go by how it is perceived by the experiencer.

What makes a religious experiences more authentic?

Don't let a Bass player hear you say that.

Have I ever googled pagan statues in Washington d.c.? No. Have you ever googled Reindeer in Ethiopia?

I don't believe the Bible anywhere precludes the consumption of alcohol. Like others here have said though, if it proves a stumbling block for you then steer clear.

Agnosticism is about knowledge. Atheism is about belief. So I'm Agnostic because I don't think it's possible to "know" there is a God. And I'm Atheist because I don't "Believe" there is a God. Generally speaking I do just call myself an Atheist. It's only when people try to frame it as either...

No there is no "Divine Enemy" It is simply a product of our nature that leads us to do both Good and Bad things.

The World is broken compared to what? There is no need for a Devil. Humans are quite capable of screwing things up on their own.

This is an argument from ignorance. You could equally well claim nature as the origin of everything. And which God would it be whose invisible qualities are clearly seen?

I consider myself an Agnostic Atheist. By that I mean both together not that I am Agnostic about Atheism. ;)

It may be that there have been so many other space shows since then that for me it didn't seem as original as perhaps it would have at the time.