Recently I have been looking at my "christian faith" and I have realised that 90% of what I believe has been influenced by stupid culture purpetrated by stupid little people who don't know better. The guy who is meant to be the leader comes up and tells you that "God has put something upon his heart" what he is doing when he says this is: "I have a direct link with God, listen to me or sin against God, I know whats right." I tried raising this point with him one day and he was puzzled, it was then I realised that he could never actually understand it. Church culture is often stupid, and you are told that you must go to church for fellowship. when you go to Church you have to operate with in their culture, and that is so filled with hypocracy its not funny. They talk about getting people to accept God using Free will and then use Emotive BS to trap you into it, one of the guys admitted that he uses the "Get em while they're young technique" of converting 10-12 yearolds with the idea of burning in hell forever. Makes me sick.
Back to emotives, I have been going to this "Night Church: Real Ultimate God" thing for the last 3 weeks as one of my freinds has draged me along. This service pisses me off. They say it's a powerful learning experience, but looking at it theres some pretentious pop worship at the beginning of the service and then a guy stands up and talks for ten minutes on some topic. He gives 3-5 verses (Thats not a meal of scripture... thats not even a snack.) and thinks thats enough fact, he will then emote for a further 15 minutes on this thing trieing to convict the listeners in their hearts that he's right. Ofcource the people who don't realise this fall for it and then can't comprehend when you argue with what the "teacher" has said. we then break into "discussion groups" and discuss this "sermon." Usually it is more emotives followed by the same verse. 9 times out of ten the answer is something like "Because God loves us", "with all our hearts", or "no".
Man religion pisses the crap out of me.