Sho Nuff

I went through the same thing 6 years ago. I was in seminary when I left the faith. I got by telling my mother a partial truth. I told her that the church as it stands is not the church described in the Bible and until I found one that was I would study the word on my own. My mother still like to believe that I am saved. I gloss over the issue and she chooses not to press it. I dont lead prayer at family gatherings anymore. I do what I feel is right, realizing that right and wrong are relative. Recently, I've gone back to reading the Bible and realized how wrong the church got it. The words of the Bible were written by great men, so much so that man believed the words to come for the creator of all things. But despite that reverence, they can't live by the message.

Since leaving the church a man that was like a brother to me turned away. I respect what he stands for, but I think he like the rest got it wrong. Many others from my church though have also left in recent years. I even dated one of them for a while.

It was hard to build a morality for the first time at the age of twenty. I did a lot of stupid things while forming my own identity, but I am a much stronger man because of it.

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I know Nietzsche doesnt rhyme with peachy, but you sound like a pretentious prick when you correct me.