Feel like Crying

[elflover59]

I have a roommate who is one of my few friends. Like me he is very religious. But there is a big different between us. He goes to church twice a week, Bible study and Outreach ones a week. I don't go to Church, mostly because i get very bad anxiety plus high BP when leaving the house plus i don't study the Bible. What i do is i pray every night and try to be a good person. In the last 10 years i took like 20 peoples in and let them stay with me till they found a job and a own place to stay. I believe very much in our creator but it looks like being a good person is not enough. I always hear from my roommate i am going to HELL because i am not going to Church. It hurts so much to hear this because i do thing i am a good person. But if you hear this often you start to not believe in your self. Thats why i never talk about my believe because of things like this. I guess i will not be along in this place because there are so many people out there who are like me. I just feel like crying now after Hearing again acording to the Bible i am not good enough.

P.S. For some reason i posted the same entry 3 times and when i deleted two of them ,i deleted the one with all the comments. I wanted to keep your kind comments so i just put them back here from the e-mail.

Comments

From Ice_Lady_

[(Anonymous)]

*holds tight*

Please, don't take this the wrong way, and I really don't mean it like that, but seriously, most of the stuff written in the Bible is archaic and so very much written through the lens of people who lived there (a very tiny tribe surrounded by badass huge kingdoms that tried to butcher 'em up from all sides). Whether the message from god is there or not, I'm not getting into that discussion (each of us has the right to our own belief), but when I hear people yap about how you're gonna go to hell because you're not abiding to millennia old rules that MADE SENSE THEN... why are you using a computer then, seriously?!

*glomps again*

Please don't let this person's hatred get to you. Ever heard of that little thing that half the Bible was based on - love?

Also... even though this article is written by an atheist, I think the message is gorgeous and should be applied to anyone, regardless, no?

I always come back to reread this little paragraph, 'cause it's so beautifully showing who humans really are, and what we should all strive to be:

If I’m trapped in a foxhole—or a shower, slumber party, or abandoned farmhouse—give me someone who celebrates the human capacity for understanding and choosing what’s right, rather than someone who needs to be told what’s right, and then chooses it to avoid punishment.