Personal Narrative – Atheist Essay

As I finished reading the first three chapters of Courageous Faith, I found myself to be most identified with Abraham. The beginning of new things is hard and challenging, and it takes great faith and courage for a person to make a decision that can change his whole life. This was what happened with Abram. God told him to leave behind his whole world to move to Canaan. He had to face new and unfamiliar people and environment, but he believed in God and follow His will. Throughout my life, I have met with changes throughout the years. From elementary to high school, I always go to a school far away from the previous with new environment, and all the people there already know each other and are friends. Then I study abroad in the States, this

I became a Christian in 1982 while in high school. I had never attended church prior to Easter 1982. I found something interesting in the whole of the service and decided to read a Bible. The Bible made some sense to me. I had a few questions about some of the stuff that had happened and was given Evidence that Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell. Well that answered most of my questions. I was also given Mere Christianity which answered more questions. I felt convicted by the Holy Spirit and asked G-d to come into my life and forgive me of my sins.

I have a cold and he’s injured, so we are sitting on the wall in the room.

Religious/Spiritual Identity(R): On any given day my own religious/spiritual identity hovers somewhere between atheist and agnostic. However, I was baptized and raised Catholic for the first eight years of my life and I went to church and Sunday school weekly. I made my first confession and communion through this church. When I was a little bit older my Mom decided to start taking us to a Presbyterian church. We went to this church less frequently than we used to go to the Catholic one, but my sister and I still attended a children’s bible study on Wednesday nights and went to services on Sundays with our mom. In addition to these religions, I am also fairly aware of how the Southern Baptist churches operate. In other words, I am familiar with

When I was a child, my mother kept her runes and tarot cards in the headboard of her bed. Sometimes I would go into her room, climb onto her bed and pull them out, carefully untying the sink coverings and look at each card, wondering if they could tell me my future. I was young, and I didn’t understand their meaning. I thought pulling the death card meant you were going to die, I thought the fool meant you were going to do something stupid, and if you got the Queen then you were going to spend the rest of your life living a life of luxury and comfort.

I spent from kindergarten to eighth grade at a Catholic school. I learned about both the Bible and the Catholic faith and never saw them at odds with each other. After eighth grade I attended Wayne Christian. I was shocked at how uneducated these Christians were on their fellow believers, claiming that the Catholics were not Christians. I try to dispel their ignorance with education such as explaining the Catholic perspective on Saint Mary, sainthood, and certain rites of the Church. Day after day I corrected them on Catholic beliefs, me against a whole school of people. I eventually had to leave the school because the people were to set in their ways. That is when I challenge something that outraged me.

While I believe it is important to be able to work with any clientele regardless of their, sex, race, or religion. I would like to approach my education with a Christian world-view. As I myself carry a Christian perspective, I would like to continue my education in the environment that enriches this perspective. I hope to gain further education that instills these values that I can continue to maintain in my future career as not only a professional counselor but as a child of God.

As the American public reels back and forth from the winds of political posturing and fundamental change, it seems that the values of our Christian faith are continually under attack or being disregarded in the public arena. There seems to be an underlying movement to remove Christianity from the eye of the public and an assault to marginalize Christian beliefs in order to change the mind of our nation to view Christianity as an antiquated religion that has no necessary reason to be part of the public affairs of our Nation.

When it comes to my religious beliefs, I am Catholic and after taking this class Religious Imagination class with Professor Martin. I can say that I have gained new insight to the different religions that we have learned throughout the course of the class. This class really opened and broadened my perspective on different religions because never experience or even learned about these different religions before taking this class. The specific religions that I have gained insight on were Hinduism, Buddhism and Primal religion. Before taking this class I heard of these religions but I did not actually know what they were. Each Religion that we learned helped me is the amazing ways people believe in God. I found the Primal religion extremely interesting

31.50% of the world is Christian. 22.32% of the world is Islamic. 0.20% of the world is Judaic. 13.95% of the world is Hindu. 5.25% of the world is Buddhist. 15.35% of the world is secular, nonreligious, agnostic, or atheist. 10.58% of the world is made up of other religions. I am among the 15.35% of the world that is secular, nonreligious, agnostic, or atheist. However, I identify as a religion called LaVeyan Satanism, which sprung up into our world on Walpurgisnacht in 1966 and was birthed by Anton Szandor LaVey.

Let me start by saying that this trip was great! when you take into account the strides that you would have seen in our kids it truly amazes you. Our youth here stepped up in an environment that they were uncomfortable in. They worked in a thrift store, the thrift store is a building that takes donations and sells the donated items back to the community for a low price to help the people out. Our kids here, along with a group with the Waxahachie congregation, each took a kid, sometimes multiple under their wings and showed them the love and compassion of Christ. All this work that we did was alongside the Compassion 21 group, an inner city ministry group. our last night in Alabama, we had a devotional period in which all of us were asked what we would walk away with.

My journey with God started in February of 1993, when I went to a ladies’ conference in Columbus, Texas. It was while the speaker was explaining that she knew there were some of us out in the audience, who felt guilty about something they had done in their past, and they did not feel that God could forgive them for it. But then she quoted from God’s word; “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, not principalities, no things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 8:38-39 NASB) The speaker continued on to say that all we need to do is

Humans from my own point of view are God's creation, because the bible makes me understand that humans were created in God's image, and during the creation of man, God blew the breath of life into man to make him come alive. I assume the reason humans are so unique is that they were created like God. The reason why humans are the best of all creation is that they can think, invent new things, and have dominion of all other creatures on earth. Humans are the only living creation that is conscious of their own existence, because they have advanced knowledge and skills to do things, for example, humans can clothe themselves, cook their foods, and even invent numerous technologies. Humans have a well-regulated sense that is able to

People in our society today who have the atheist point of view on religion, which is the belief that there is no god, are going against the so-called norms of society, and therefor are seen as deviant. Deviance is just an idea. Society determines what is deviant by the ideas they hold of what should be the norm. Atheism is seen as a negative deviance, or below the norm. They have a status that is placed on them in society. It doesn’t necessarily mean that they believe in evil, although that is how it is sometimes viewed from people in society who have a specific religion or faith. Atheism, which is not a new idea, has been evolving in our society, and is the reason for problems leading to debate and court cases, and for

Most of us have hopefully heard the incredible story of the woman at the well. For me today, this story met me right where I was at. All though it may sound silly, last night I was devastated at my favorite sports team loosing miserable to it’s opponent. There was so much building up to the game, anticipation, special food bought, friends were all gathered to watch, and then it was a major let down. I will never forget this unhealthy fleshly feeling I felt after the lost, it felt like my whole world at that point in time was a total failure and was worthless. As a follower of Christ, I knew this feeling was not of Him. In fact, it was the feeling of another god that I chose to serve. When we put all our efforts into things of this world, not only will they let us down, but we will become as worthless as they are. Not saying that sports are bad, but a false god normally isn’t a bad thing in it’s essence, until we put it higher in place of the one true God. This to me this is one of the most dangerous things we deal with everyday of life. Because anything can creep in to become that one centerpiece of our life, and as we serve it we become as worthless as it is(most the time it is ourselves). I say these things are worthless because we are talking about an area where the ALL-powerful, holy, and righteous God should be in control of. This is why worshiping the Lord is so important, it makes Him the ruler of our life, and He is the only one worthy/capable of fulfilling that