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    Former theo professor...lost my faith :(

    Believe me, I had the most personal heart relationship with Jesus Christ as anyone can have. I loved and worshipped him with all my heart. Unfortunately, it WAS all in my head.
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    Former theo professor...lost my faith :(

    Well, "agnostic" to me at least seems that one is open to new ideas and balances the tension between wonder and awe at the world and its strangeness, and lack of belief in anything particular because none of the available religions seems "true" in the literal sense (maybe in the "mythical"?).
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    The Problem with Divine Providence

    moosiz, I'm sorry, one more thing. Just to make another point about the whole "God bless the USA" idea. This is one of several dangerous, destructive doctrines of American Christianity. It is used by many (I'm not picking on YOU in particular) to justify war and ignore poverty. When you take...
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    The Problem with Divine Providence

    moosiz, First, you shouldn't follow a religion based on the promise you're going to get, but on whether or not it's true. Besides, Mormonism and Islam all promise some pretty fantastic things, so why not give them a shot? And Jesus' promises? That we'll suffer and weep and be persecuted...
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    The Problem with Divine Providence

    Rachael, that's a pretty terrible idea, IMO. So, God wants our praise to be meaningful, so he stacks the deck against humanity so that they torture and rape and murder and suffer horribly? At this very moment, there are millions of sex slaves in the world; millions are in agony; lives are...
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    The Problem with Divine Providence

    This world looks exactly like a world without divine providence would look...The Christian's #1, 2, and 3 response are something like, "Well, we don't know the ways of God...or...we can't understand the 'big picture.'" These questions have troubled me to no end and started the ball rolling in...
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    Former theo professor...lost my faith :(

    I looked for a forum and chose this one because it looks pretty happening. I've recently had some big changes in my faith-life and am anxious to discuss things with anonymous people (there's too much emotion at stake when talking with friends or family). My long-story-made-short is that I...