Today I no longer consider myself a Christian. Through AA I have found a God that I never felt before. My connection with this God has given me peace and strength that I’ve never found in the church or the bible. I can worship God but struggle with worshipping Jesus. I struggle to believe that because someone prays to a non-Christian god that they go to hell. I struggle with the concept of heaven and hell. Indigenous beief is that we just go be with our loved ones that went before us. There are a multitude of concepts taught throughout a variety of religions that just feel right to me. Not sure what i need here butjust needed to put it down that I have God and a strong spiritual connection with that God but I am no longer Christian
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There are thousands upon thousands of individual regions in the world. Many believe theirs is the only correct one… and they probably can’t all be right, right?
Corruption and exploit has entered religion similar to how it has infiltrated most everything in this world.
Believe in whatever you want. Believe in what provides you strength and solace. Believe in what genuinely backs up what you believe it is to be a good person.
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Id just go to your meetings and life will get clearer for you as for not being a christian anymore thats fine , wish you well
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There are lots of writings that mix the two, and I have found it increasingly easier to read things and replace “god” with a more general term, like Divine or Universe. The book 24 hours a day is full of such references. It also uses imagery such as the stream of divine goodness, and the box of space and time, both of these appeal to me. Today’s meditation and prayer are solidly spiritual with no trace of religion:
Meditation for the Day
Every strong and beautiful flower must have a strong root in the ground. It must send a root down so that it may be rooted and grounded while at the same time it sends a shoot up to be the flower that shall gladden the world. Both growths are necessary. Without a strong root, it would soon wither. The higher the growth upward, the deeper must be the rooting. My life cannot flower into success and help fullness unless it is rooted in a strong faith, or unless it feels deeply secure in the goodness and purpose of the universe.Prayer for the Day
I pray that my life may be deeply rooted in faith. I pray that I may feel deeply secure.
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I second this.
Actually the golden rule is pretty much the same in every religion.
Be the person to others that you want others to be to you, and treat people the way you want to be treated.
Simple as that. There’s a reason that the golden rule is the same in every religion. Because that’s the only thing that’s important.
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Now that I’ve been sober for 19 days, I don’t consider myself Christian anymore. This is interesting because when I was drinking and smoking weed, I was converting to Orthodox Christianity. Maybe I was just trying to get some comfort from the religion, but now that I’ve been sober, I consider myself as a spiritual being without religion. I believe in God or Prime Creator or whatever we want to call Him/Her, but I don’t need religion anymore. Funny how sobriety can change things.