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Comment author: katydee 05 November 2010 02:51:47PM 2 points [-]

I know all these techniques. The issue is that I feel, on a deep level, that Christianity is true. I can't explain it in normal terms, but I feel it. I have tried to live a life without it for several years, but have found this difficult.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 06 November 2010 04:55:45PM *  3 points [-]

The issue is that I feel, on a deep level, that Christianity is true.

In a kind of Disney movie/believe in yourself/do what you feel is right, kind of way? I'd just go right ahead and suppress that feeling. Seriously. Things don't become more likely because you have a deep feeling that they're true. Lots of people have deep level feelings about lots of things*.The great thing is that if you suppress those feelings, and God does turn out to exist, being rational about it will lead you to the correct beliefs anyway.

*I have a constant feeling that pacifism is always the right course, and that I should never use violence for anything. But I suppress this feeling because it isn't actually correct.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 November 2010 03:38:11PM 1 point [-]

The issue is that I feel, on a deep level, that Christianity is true.

You feel that, but do you believe that?

Comment author: ata 05 November 2010 06:30:31PM 0 points [-]

Were you raised Christian? Were you originally convinced (not just emotionally) that it actually was true?

Comment author: NihilCredo 05 November 2010 05:10:30PM *  0 points [-]

I feel, on a deep level, that Christianity is true

I'd like to read more about that. What do you feel, think, and believe happened in Palestine circa 0-33 AD? What about the previous several thousand years of Israeli history ? What about the saints and miracles of the following ~1600 years or so?

And do you have any idea of why (I assume) you don't feel the same about the events that built Islam, Asatro, or Hinduism?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 November 2010 04:43:33PM 0 points [-]

Could you expand on what the feeling is like?

Also, what would you be doing or thinking differently if you accepted Christianity as true?