Quote ="West Leeds Rhino"I was brought up going to church. I still go to church. God has nothing to do with it. My understanding of the bible as a book is that of many others that I know. I disregard the old testament as a Christian book. Christianity starts and ends with Jesus' teachings. Jesus wasn't the son of God, he, if anything, was a very intelligent man with the same ability as someone like Derren Brown. His teachings were about humanity treating each other fairly. That's it. The bible was written in a way to control the masses through fear.
I still go to church and take a Sunday school class to try and explain my version of understanding to the young people (without being too blunt).
When listening to a service, I look for moral teaching in the story. Sometimes there isn't any but most of the time there is. I usually disagree with the minister's theory but that is irrelevant. The main reason for most churches is nothing to do with religion but for a place for the community to meet and socialise. The congregation at my church is actually growing and is very healthy.
I can imagine that other churches are more formal and can't speak for them, but I know why I go.'"
You do realise mate that just as there is no God, there was nt a Jesus bloke either.
Are you happy knowing you are brain washing people into accepting your unfounded beliefs on others.
In my opinion, ALL preachers of ANY Religion should be jailed for at least spouting BS and at worse for brain washing.
Like smoking it should be banned for under 18s and then they can decide if they want to believe in your imaginary god/jesus/religion off their own back and not forced into it like those you preach to on sundays.
Here endeth the Sermon!!!
