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by UMstudent
Fri Jan 09, 2015 12:36 pm
Forum: Welcome -- please introduce yourself here.
Topic: Hello
Replies: 10
Views: 3607

Re: Hello

and thanks everyone for responding, you're all very kind and supportive.
by UMstudent
Fri Jan 09, 2015 12:35 pm
Forum: Welcome -- please introduce yourself here.
Topic: Hello
Replies: 10
Views: 3607

Re: Hello

the coc is a minor twig on an outlying branch of the whole tree of 'Christianity', and barely a blip on the whole array of 'religion' worldwide. Tiny, out of the mainstream, and quite frankly, not even terribly interesting. Yes, that's an important observation that I'm keen to forget. When you grow...
by UMstudent
Fri Jan 09, 2015 12:32 pm
Forum: Welcome -- please introduce yourself here.
Topic: Struggling
Replies: 26
Views: 6624

Re: Struggling

I identify a lot with where you're coming from. I feel that the CoC isn't quite right for me for various reasons, but I also have a good bit of difficulty selecting an alternative denomination to worship with. As others have pointed out, I feel this is due to the CoC's tendency to discredit other se...
by UMstudent
Fri Jan 02, 2015 11:20 pm
Forum: Welcome -- please introduce yourself here.
Topic: Hello
Replies: 10
Views: 3607

Hello

Hello, I was raised CoC and was very involved in the church until the last few years when I went to boarding school and college. Following school I (in private) began to mostly identify with agnosticism because God seemed far away, cold, and judgmental to me. However, I now believe that God wasn't t...