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Curious and not sure why. How many our our struggling adult kids are atheists?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 648303" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>GN, you are only speaking of Christianity. There are many belief systems. The only person who forgives in mine is me. If I can't forgive myself, nobody else will, not even my higher power.</p><p></p><p>I have no idea why when people hear "religion" they forget that there are so many. This was a very long, slow path for me and a growing experience. I started out Jewish, rejected that early because it did not give me enough to hang onto, Christianity at many churches was next but it did not totally do the trick for me (I believe we were all meant to find out own way). Finally, I got very into doing research on near death experiences and that changed my life and my way of thinking, and it took off from there. So there is this spirituality too that has no name. There is Wicca. There is Islam. There is Hinduism. There is Buddhism (I have a strong love of Buddhist's sayings). There are some whose path bring them to believe there is nothing after.</p><p></p><p>I think we are all meant to believe what we believe and I would never disrespect anyone based on that. However, our difficult kids tend to discount anything with rules and morals and don't have any intrinsically within themselves. They want no rules, no moral norms, internal anarchy and they want everyone to be ok with it. Under those circumstances I figured that most of our challenged little sweethearts would have no moral compass, be it from a religion or from within (we all know that they don't have it from within). Therefore, I wanted to see if my feelings were valid.</p><p></p><p>I love anything spiritual...am often drawn to Native American culture for that reason. And I feel all religions are good and that good people are just as good. I don't believe we should bash somebody if we believe in something and they do not. But I've been on the receiving end of that too and don't appreciate being told that "science" doesn't show that there is anything more than life and death and I have been told that many times in a nasty way. I don't like when non-believers ridicule especially Christians about "a little man in the sky." That makes me feel bad for the person who said it, not the person it was said about. It shows such a lack of tolerance. So it goes both ways. </p><p></p><p>In the end, we should respect one another if we are good people. And that's all that matters to me. Somebody else's private beliefs or lack of them is not my business.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 648303, member: 1550"] GN, you are only speaking of Christianity. There are many belief systems. The only person who forgives in mine is me. If I can't forgive myself, nobody else will, not even my higher power. I have no idea why when people hear "religion" they forget that there are so many. This was a very long, slow path for me and a growing experience. I started out Jewish, rejected that early because it did not give me enough to hang onto, Christianity at many churches was next but it did not totally do the trick for me (I believe we were all meant to find out own way). Finally, I got very into doing research on near death experiences and that changed my life and my way of thinking, and it took off from there. So there is this spirituality too that has no name. There is Wicca. There is Islam. There is Hinduism. There is Buddhism (I have a strong love of Buddhist's sayings). There are some whose path bring them to believe there is nothing after. I think we are all meant to believe what we believe and I would never disrespect anyone based on that. However, our difficult kids tend to discount anything with rules and morals and don't have any intrinsically within themselves. They want no rules, no moral norms, internal anarchy and they want everyone to be ok with it. Under those circumstances I figured that most of our challenged little sweethearts would have no moral compass, be it from a religion or from within (we all know that they don't have it from within). Therefore, I wanted to see if my feelings were valid. I love anything spiritual...am often drawn to Native American culture for that reason. And I feel all religions are good and that good people are just as good. I don't believe we should bash somebody if we believe in something and they do not. But I've been on the receiving end of that too and don't appreciate being told that "science" doesn't show that there is anything more than life and death and I have been told that many times in a nasty way. I don't like when non-believers ridicule especially Christians about "a little man in the sky." That makes me feel bad for the person who said it, not the person it was said about. It shows such a lack of tolerance. So it goes both ways. In the end, we should respect one another if we are good people. And that's all that matters to me. Somebody else's private beliefs or lack of them is not my business. [/QUOTE]
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