Born Christian but not "born again."

Jesus. There's nothing that pisses me off more than people who start a thread, and then don't have the balls to go with it once it's loosed. Say what you mean, mean what you say. Take the inevitable snide remarks for what they are, learn your lessons, move on.

I was born in 77 and I was always under the impression that I was not an X-er.

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHA....

This is at least the second or third time you've posted a thread and then edited out your original post when people got on your case. To me, that's even more annoying than being an attention whore in the first place. Here, I'll do the math for you (ATTN WHORE + COWARD = EVEN LAMER).

If you can't bear people coming down on you for posting something, perhaps you should reconsider starting the threads in the first place.

~Trilo~

bingo

~Trilo~

Same here. Or, if I was, it was on the tangential fringe of being an X-er.

But 1984? I mean, dear fucking christ, people born in 1984 were 9 or 10 when Kurt Cobain killed himself...

And may have been conceived while their parents were boning to "The Safety Dance"

~Trilo~

Doesn't sound very safe to me.

That's why they end up starting threads like this... (hell, it's a major win when one of 'em doesn't have to wear a helmet!)

Now the kids conceived to the sounds of The Eurythmics... an entirely different class of people!

~Trilo~

A serious response.....editing your post was kinda Lame....but I will tell you starting any thread regarding religion in SG (unless mocking it from the beginning) is usually a bad idea and don't expect any serious responses (except from me apparently).
I think it sucks you can't...but it is what it is.

It wasn't actually about religion.

That the way I read it....How many people were brought up a certain way (his example was Christian) and have moved away from that label...yeah he used a bunch of other examples of labels though.
Anyways...the title and his example of religion seemed to me to be part of the reason it wasn't taken seriously.....just one guys opinion.

Tough to discuss since the original post was removed but here's part of it I salvaged from my first reply.

He specifically asked about 'organized religion' and moving away from it.

How did this get misconstrued as a "label" question?

Because in the entire rest of the post, he talked about punk/emo/"fringe" labels and what he was compared to what other people called him.

Sure, I belive his questions was something like, "I was born Christian and now I'm punk/emo etc."

Oh, ok, now I see how this was read as a topic on labels.

What I think he meant to share was, "I was born in a Christian environment. I was raised with Christian values. As I've gotten older I think the church is a bunch of hypocrites and I no longer hold those values. And because my values have changed I now express myself differently."

Overall, it was about leaving Christianity.

I thought this was a great thing to share. Myself, born and raised in the buckle of the Bible Belt, the church has a fucking death grip on your soul. Or so you think when you are growing up. It's a tough personal struggle to leave.