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Originally Posted by DistantStar

This is one of the things which drove me over the edge with the LC. I recall how one LC member told me about a conversation he had with a sceptic once. That sceptic would ask him questions, and all the friend said was something along the lines of "just believe, just believe, just believe".

I HATE! HATE!! HATE when people say "JUST BELIEVE!!' They're nothing but a bunch of religious idiots!

A few months ago right after I left the LC, I started to have a discussion with another friend who was becoming an atheist after reading about evolution and Nietzsche. One midday as we walked he unloaded all the reasons he had for becoming an atheist on me. It shook me to the core. I could not answer him. It drove me to find answers. But I was months too late.

As I walked to my flat after that discussion, I passed the LC. For a moment I stopped, looked at the church, and said "Damn you."

Good for you !! When I first came to the LC, they BOASTED not being a part of 'Christianity'.. that GOD HATES RELIGION.. we were 'REAL' unreligious, unorthodox! PURE..FUN..LOVING...
WHA' HAPPENED???

You know when I knew Lee and his yes men had kicked God out? When they told us not to refer the 1st day of the week as Sunday anymore. It was now to be referred to as 'the Lord's day'.

They kicked Christ out and welcomed with open arms the pharisees and Sadducees !!

Why? Because I realised that if this friend of mine which had all these questions were to go to them, that they would not have even wanted to give him answers. I mean, all the apologists of the day are just plain hypocrites in their eyes.

I realised that if anything they would have given this friend of mine more reason to become an atheist. And for that I despise them. They are closed off, holier-than-thou and condescending.

It is a real pity that you became an atheist. I haven't given up on this friend, and I never want to loose somebody to atheism again. Do yourself a favour and give Christ a real chance. Look at the work of modern apologists like William Lane Craig, John Lennox and Gary Habermas. Please don't discount God for your experience of a borderline cult, as the saying goes: "Don't throw out the baby with the water."

P. S. I know it was wrong of me to curse them.

You didn't damn the people.. you simply damned the religious spirits that screwed up the good people who were looking for the Savior of the world to rescue them and love them, to fix them up.

That's what I wanted ! And for a short while in that environnment I did feel loved and God DID rescue me.