New Creationist Ploy: Skepticism, Demanding Evidence

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Originally Posted by mfelten86

I was like this too, going to public schools all my life and hearing about evolution and such made me believe that Christianity was just a big "myth" from people passed down over many generations. I thought it was just created so that the Roman Catholic church could get money and whatever they wanted from people.

You received a pretty poor education then. The religion was, in fact, created because people believed Jesus, and it spread. It wasn't until a few hundred years ago that it started getting very corrupt, eventually leading to the Reformation.

Originally Posted by mfelten86

But when I started attending church voluntarily I realized that I wasn't being a "sheep" as you would call it. I wanted to go because it is showing me how to better my life. And I could either accept it or deny it.

You can better your life without religion. Once again, this is an example of dependence on a divine being to help you improve your life when it's just as easy to do it yourself without religion.

Originally Posted by mfelten86

Which brings me to the question, why shouldn't you try Christianity? If you can find a good church who won't pressure you to do stuff that you don't want to do..what is the problem? My church (and I'm hoping that most churches) don't just "spew" you their beliefs. They read scripture and interpret it.

"Reading scripture and interpreting it" is the same as "spewing beliefs." Both ways, the priest is reading out of the holy book and telling you what he believes it means. "Spew" just has a negative connotation attached to it.

Also, if you don't want to do the sort of things Jesus said you had to do, then no church fits your description of a good church. All should pressure you to do things a good Christian should do, or else they would be very poor churches in my opinion.

The problem occurs when what you want to do clashes with what the church wants you to do.