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We can tell who the cultured and uncultured are by this poll smh...
These are the votes that matter most
I just want to apologize to everyone, I’ve been offline during a very busy time due to some personal conflicts and I wanted to say sorry and let everyone know I’ll try my best to stay active.
Cheese-us for Jesus
I'm thinking of maybe converting to Christianity. Though I would want it to be to a relatively liberal church. I used to believe in God as a kid (never got baptised) and I kinda miss that feeling sometimes if I'm going to be honest.
I will tell you as a person who has been distant from Jesus and close to Jesus, there is no greater love I have ever felt.
As far as liberal or conservative church, the important part is to find community. God
created us to be in communion with others, so find a church with people you enjoy and trust.
Best wishes and I lift my prayers up for you!
O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good
things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such
love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all
things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can
desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with
you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
A lot of people will start going to church and want to be baptized as soon as possible. But the passion burns quickly and they leave. A lot of people will baptize during or around Easter. Since it's a new liturgical year you could start going to church, learning the process, getting involved and by this time next year you would be ready to be baptized. For a liberal church look for an Episcopal church or a UMC church in your area.
It being a liberal church would be very important to me, so thanks for the recommendation.
I'd recommend checking out United Methodism, from my experience and from what I've read they're very progressive and accepting. That feeling of eternal ultimate love and feeling like you're part of Gods plan, that you're an instrument of Gods love in the world, maybe even God experiencing different aspects of themself, it's a feeling I miss too, I've done a lot of drugs to try and feel a fraction of it. They say hell is seperation from God and that's what I've been feeling for a while, I'm mostly content after months of psychiatric treatment but I'm not as happy as when I believed, I want to believe again.
Trigger warning mention of sexual assault and suicide
I've always struggled with The Problem of Evil, especially in nature with things like predation and parasitism, but I think the biggest reason I feel a disconnect from God is because I fully believed and I had full faith that I am a blessed child of God, God is guiding me and protecting me, I felt safer than I've felt since I was a kid or high. I took risks I shouldn't have, overlooked red flags cause I wanted a relationship and validation and I felt like it was all part of some grand plan. I was sexually assaulted, and I didn't think of it consciously at the time but it was a terrible reminder that I really wasn't being protected, that I lived in a universe that was random and one that didn't care whether I lived or died. God is supposed to be all powerful and all loving but he sat by and did nothing while I was being raped, on some level I don't believe anymore but on another level I don't know that I can come to trust God again, I want to, I miss it, but he wasn't there for me when I needed him most and I don't know what to do about that.
Some context, I had been an atheist since 14. My mom invited me to a UMC church and I'd seen a pastor there at a few protest events so I went, he talked about the shepard leaving the flock to find the lost sheep and I felt so called, he really appealed to the part of me that's codependent and feels a need to be saved and taken care of. I essentially gaslit myself back into faith by just repeating in my head and saying all day that God is good and is protecting and loves me. I don't know when but that same pastor became my limerent object, I would've done anything anything for him, I probably would have killed for him. After the assault happened I distracted myself with activism and with the computer. I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole in the reddit christianity sphere, found a guy who said he'd cleanse me from the anxiety and depression demons I was dealing with, I believed him, gave me his phone number and we talked about it for a bit but before we could try and see if it'd work I attempted suicide because I was curious what that feeling when you pray is called, what I thought and hoped was the holy spirit moving through me, and there was a sociological thing, this was the straw the broke the camels back and broke me
I'm in a much better place right now after months of psychiatric treatment, I'm content most of the time. I want to believe again, and part of AA is finding a higher power so I'm trying to, and Christianity is the only religion I've dealt with that has one, and I really like the idea of a God that would come down and experience what it is to be human, though I do find the idea of God sacrificing himself to himself to change a thing he has power over weird, I don't know where I heard this but I like the idea that Jesus was an activist and healer and saver and he was murdered by the state because he threatened the privilege of the upper ruling classes of the time, and because he didn't submit to their false gods
Jesus was not an activist nor did he threaten the privilege of the upper ruling class.
Not an activist? Why would they crucify him then? Didn't threaten the upper ruling class? Why did he often criticize the Pharisees then?
I'd argue that Jesus was a proto-socialist, and that if Jesus were born today he'd be a full on socialist, he said we should give all our money to the poor and live together in one christian community, that and of course whipping the money money for corrupting the sanctity of the temple with their worship of money and commerce.
You cannot serve two gods, you cannot worship Mammon and Christ at the same time. Capitalism is entirely predicated by and run through the worship of the false god Mammon, capitalism encourages us to be selfish, to fight our neighbors over the crumbs given to us by the ruling class. Capitalism is entirely antithetical to the idea of a Christian society, one that revolves around not the worship of money but of God. Our only job here in creation is to be an instrument of Gods love in the world, to love your neighbor as you love your self and as you love God.
Just flying thru on our way south. Praise the Lord.
No need to join a church until you find one you are comfortable with. As for baptism, talk to the pastor once you find a home church and they will help you with that process. Once the Holy Spirit grabs ahold of you, you will know what you need to do with the guidance of a mentor and/or clergy.
Love gimmick accounts like this.
Also, Blessed Pascha to all! Christ is Risen!
Geese we meet again
Accidentally turned my country into a monarchy, so I just decided to say heck with it and roll with the punches.
Friendship with liberalism is ended, now Conservative Constitutional Monarchy is my friend.
Tried to become monarchist but became communist dictatorship in my early days
You are my favourite easter egg on Nationstates this year
I kinda wanted to keep it as a conservative republic, but I think it’s growing on me.
Now to figure out our Royal Family.
The campaigning period is open! Here are your party lists!
Monarchy Movement
Austrin
Empire of Impiria
Americolumbia
Alluxia
Chrizenia
Plural Front
Ecclestia
Rolenmar
Union of the Orklanders
Progressive Alliance
Mendevia
Starosa
Union Party
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