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Humble Janitor · 05-11-2009, 08:22 AM

A friend of mine tried to lure me into joining a church he had joined years ago. They believed in the rapture and the salvation of only 144,000 people. They tended to model their structure after the "Left Behind" movies and to me, that was a very dangerous path to take and nearly cult-like.

Anyway, this friend no longer attends church. He no longer mentions what he learned there. It's almost as if he came to find out in time that he was going about it the wrong way. We are friends again. I have forgiven what he tried to do.

That church and their beliefs did not resonate with me. I was not comfortable around those folks, some of who I knew only on the surface. Again, time heals everything and I feel as if those folks will eventually wake up enough to move away from organized religion.

I don't mean to judge them but I just feel that organized religion is the wrong way to go. When people use religion as an excuse to exclude others in their lives, they are making a mistake, but it is a mistake that they will eventually learn from and hopefully they will correct themselves.

Ultimately, there is no bad or good.

05-11-2009, 08:22 AM	#4
Humble Janitor Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 3,201	Re: Conversation with a Christian co-worker... A friend of mine tried to lure me into joining a church he had joined years ago. They believed in the rapture and the salvation of only 144,000 people. They tended to model their structure after the "Left Behind" movies and to me, that was a very dangerous path to take and nearly cult-like. Anyway, this friend no longer attends church. He no longer mentions what he learned there. It's almost as if he came to find out in time that he was going about it the wrong way. We are friends again. I have forgiven what he tried to do. That church and their beliefs did not resonate with me. I was not comfortable around those folks, some of who I knew only on the surface. Again, time heals everything and I feel as if those folks will eventually wake up enough to move away from organized religion. I don't mean to judge them but I just feel that organized religion is the wrong way to go. When people use religion as an excuse to exclude others in their lives, they are making a mistake, but it is a mistake that they will eventually learn from and hopefully they will correct themselves. Ultimately, there is no bad or good.