Re: Ex-Christian
I did go through a fanatical christian phase before I woke up to the 'truth'. My spiritual journey began when I was reading a book on metaphysics. When I understood and knew that reality was not what it seemed, I experienced a spiritual awakening in which I felt great pain and release in my chest and up to my neck. I have never fully understood that experience, but ever since then I have felt the light and love vibration in my 3rd and 4th chakras. It my be somehow connected to many lives of being a lost soul and of horrid child abuse and neglect in a very recent life I had (at the hands of my father, but it turns out that my father went through the same circumstances of abuse. Probably even worse). I am still greatly sufferring, but I am trying to get through it the best I can.
What I found out about Christianity was that one cannot dpend on anything outside of itself to save them, the person/entity can only save itself. Also Islam also holds the same belief in Hell (and a type of buddhism or taoism, i do not recall exactly) so then how can one know which one is the truth? I also discovered, as you had, that Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the empire and that the old god/goddess staues were made into saint states etc. etc. Christianity is merely the collection of many many old pagan traditions etc. etc. I could rant forever on this...
Well Christianity was what I came to believe in due to what I thought, and many others, that I had to save myself from Hell. I discovered that there are certainly other religions like this on many other planets and that they are totally irrelevant to the truth of the greater reality. Do you think that aliens give a heck over what our religions have to say? NO
Thank you for your account and love to you.
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