A few years ago I dated a woman who was a non-Christian. A few months into the relationship, I found out she was heavily influenced spiritually by a friend she's known since childhood.....who is a LaVeyan Satanist.:eek:
A lot of men(and many women) marry out of cultural and familial obligation. Others will treat a man or woman as a resource and not as individual. The latter is all too common now.
As a teenager, I left the Islamic religion for a multitude of reasons. But the final straw was reading about the apostasy laws in a Islamic book that I found on a trip to California.
I have found that when I attend enjoyable get-togethers with family or friends and have a injury or illness at that time, my symptoms decrease substantially.
Many scientists who are believers do confirm that the earth is NOT 5 or 6 thousand years old. Our species, homo sapiens have been around for at least 100 thousand years.
Governments the world over are try to justify these mandates, because they say they're trying to protect the public and ease the burdens on their health care systems. Yet alcohol and tobacco are legal?