Am I such a bad person?

Well let me resond by saying that my point was bassed soley on the term “bad” thats the point I was trying to make. Who decides what “bad” is. But I would like to point out that I could act on my child hating belief without killing them. willstaytrue, confesses that because of his belief about God or lack of God, he doesn’t enjoy church and wants out. I don’t blame him. The point is that he did ACT on that mindset or belief. It is a passive action that is simply him not enjoying church. Just like I could believe that children must die without actively killing them. My action could be passive and that would be the intense hate that I would feel and likely show to them. My point is whether that mindset is bad or not. Is hate bad? The other question you had on my post deals with moral reletivism which is horribly unsound. And email me if you want my response cause it could get long.

The questions up above states,”…If you don’t believe in something it doesn’t make you a bad person.” If I didn’t believe that children should live and then acted in accordance with my belief, would that make me a bad person? If you think so then by what authority do you call my beliefs bad? The real question here, is not wether you are bad or not. We are all BAD at on point or another. I challenge anyone who has not ever done something “bad” in their lifetime to say different. Where does your consept of bad come from? What does that even mean? If there is bad, by default there has to be good. If there is good there also must be a standard (moral law) by which we destinguish bad from good. If this is true who wrote moral law? Did man? How the heck did man decide what bad and good should be? Man cannot abitrarily write an abstract moral code. Impossible! These are all interesting questions that will hopefully get you to think about why it is that you have trouble believing. By the way what exactly is it that you have trouble believing in? God? Jesus? Willstaytrue, I am convinsed that you are a great person. I am convinced that you care about people and desire to do good. God has stated in his word that wether you believe in him or not, that he created you in his image and gives you vast imense value and worth. You can choose to believe this or not, but I would ask you to consider pursuing God and asking him if he is real. I bet you will be surprised. I certainly was! I know that you dread going to church, and if you don’t even believe in God of course its not going to be fun to go to church. I would encourage you to walk up to a knowlegeble christian and simply tell them point blank, “I don’t believe in God” Give someone a chance to explain the deeper reasoning and logic behind God. If they do a lousy job then leave the church and start out on a journey to prove once and for all whether you believe or you don’t. I would encourage you to check out this website RIZM.com and AIG.com. I didn’t except christianity on blind faith and neither should you Continue to pursue truth and don’t give up and no matter what path you choose, you are no less of a person in my eyes and in God’s eyes, believe it or not!

“The questions up above states,’…If you don’t believe in something it doesn’t make you a bad person.’ If I didn’t believe that children should live and then acted in accordance with my belief, would that make me a bad person?”

You’ve gone beyond the original question by suggesting acting on your belief. It’s not a valid comparison.

“If you think so then by what authority do you call my beliefs bad? The real question here, is not wether you are bad or not. We are all BAD at on point or another. I challenge anyone who has not ever done something ‘bad’ in their lifetime to say different. Where does your consept of bad come from? What does that even mean? If there is bad, by default there has to be good. If there is good there also must be a standard (moral law) by which we destinguish bad from good. If this is true who wrote moral law? Did man? How the heck did man decide what bad and good should be? Man cannot abitrarily write an abstract moral code. Impossible!”

Impossible? Why?

I agree with Amblessed, and hope that one day you truly find faith on your own.

Until then…

Blessings…

Its ok You are free to believe what you want you may feel lost but something will find you perhaps you will find it put people will still love you and except you because everyone has rights and they have the right to except you as well

Not at all. What’s wrong with not believing? & not believing doesn’t make you a bad person, it’s what you do & how you act that determines whether you’re a good or a bad person. Or to put it simply, we’re all Yin & Yang inside, the side you choose to nurture determines who you really are.

If you trust your parents, talk to them about your loss of faith. I can promise you they’ve been there themselves, even if they won’t admit it to you.

If they’re reasonable, they might stop forcing you to go. If they’re not, then you can resort to deception, knowing they forced you into it by being unreasonable.

Too many parents try to treat teens as if they were still 6 years old and incapable of thinking for themselves. It’s your job to let them see that’s no longer true.

Many people have been where you are, Belief is having faith in the unseen. Jesus is unseen by us that believe but we know he has called us, he never promised that things would be easy, he said take up your cross and follow me. God call us into fellowship with him, not the other way around. Just keep you heart open and when you feel him calling you, you can go in just as you are. He loves you because he created you and knew you in the womb. Many people today go through life without believing in anything and that is so very sad, it has no hope. I would not have much to live for if I believed my Jesus died on the cross for nothing, but he died for you and for me so that we might have life! Just continue searching and study when you can. Blessing, God gave us free will to choose.

I don’t believe and I don’t think that makes me a bad person. people have different beliefs and its ok:D

I think in the future you’ll be very glad you were ‘drug-to-church’…It pays off !!

Thats not wrong at all. If you don’t believe in something it doesn’t make you a bad person. I don’t believe in anything 100% like that either. As you get older you’ll start to discover yourself more. I think you should talk to your parents about it telling them you are confused about some things and would like to take some time away from church. You might grow up to believe, you may not - says nothing about who you are.

god aint real end of story