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I do consider myself a Christian but not of the Bible thumping variety. I fall short of my own standards which often times (but not all) are aligned with my Catholic upbringing. (yes a Black Catholic but because the of church of my youth... not so sure)

I just try to live my life as an example of how to care for and treat others. I also try to do good and give back. Like most American Catholics I only attend services on Christmas Eve and Easter or when my heart is real heavy.

i just hope in the end if all I was taught is true that my past transgressions do not outweigh the good I have done with my later years. I also hope he doesn't hold premartial sex against me. I have had too much shitty sex to burn in hell for it.





Okay, this goes back to my original question about if you consider your self "a carnal christian" which nobody even addressed. (nice fight between tatty and the other guy, I say tatty won but I'm an asshole heathen so I'm biased anyways) I'd go so far to say that you can talk your self blue in the face about the grace of your god but that you don't really understand your own religion,......christians are supposed to be actively avoiding sin, "how can we live in it any longer" Christians are supposed to set the example to non believers, sure you are a sinner saved by grace but it also says "grace without works are dead". It can be a nice little mind fuck trying to validate the grace versus works debate. It's not really a debate as you are only saved by christs sacrifice (in the christian belief), and it's all grace but the general idea is if you really believed that you would be trying to eradicating sin from your life.

If you really believe that you can sin all you want and are still saved by grace this is where I actually start finding your believe extremely fucking offensive, because you're basically saying you could cheat, murder, steal, rape, molest whoever/whatever you wanted and you'd be saved and someone else would go to hell simply by being a Hindu or Buddhist. I think the vast majority of people that consider themselves Christians believe that are saved no matter what they do.
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