Goodbye, God : A final letter to the God I used to believe in

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This is quite an interesting read :

Hello old “friend”, it’s me again. Today, I come to you for the last time. Today, I say goodbye because I don’t know you anymore. I never really did. Since the beginning of our relationship, you’ve been fading out in my mind. I tried to hold on to you with every breath I had, and yet still, I have watched you slowly dissolve like fog into the sun. I realized, today, that I don’t love you anymore.

Anybody relate to it?

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Goodbye, God: A Final Letter To The God I Used To Believe In.

Dear God I once believed in, Hello old "friend", it's me again. Today, I come to you for the last time. Today, I say goodbye because I don't know you
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No, I can’t and don’t relate to it at all.
All it sounds like to me is a droning voice, finding fault and placing blame on God, my father. I cannot relate to that at all, and never will.
 
Well, I can’t really related to the god that the writer is talking about.

Apparently the writers “god” can’t work miracles, sends people to Hell, separates individuals, creates bigotry in the Church, doesn’t have a Son called Jesus, hates science, and has followers called Republicans.

Never met that god. I kind of don’t want to. I have a greater God than that.
 
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simpleas said:
This is quite an interesting read :

Hello old “friend”, it’s me again. Today, I come to you for the last time. Today, I say goodbye because I don’t know you anymore. I never really did. Since the beginning of our relationship, you’ve been fading out in my mind. I tried to hold on to you with every breath I had, and yet still, I have watched you slowly dissolve like fog into the sun. I realized, today, that I don’t love you anymore.

Anybody relate to it?
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Illogical – “I realized, today, that I don’t love you anymore,” implies that there was once a love, however previously states “I don’t know you anymore. I never really did”,and also stating that there was “a beginning of our relationship”. Therefore the author neither knew nor loved God ever or is speaking untuthfully.

Matthew 13:
10 And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to them in parables? 11 Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given. 12 For he that hath, to him shall be given, and he shall abound: but he that hath not, from him shall be taken away that also which he hath. 13 Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
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I’m never really interested in manifestos like this. It’s just a display in egoism, ignorance, and an unwillingness to be educated.
I feel pity for the person, but seriously, they think they have the answer. I leave them to it.
Those who are truly seeking the Divine will be led to it.
 
Agree with pianistclare. Every so often someone posts elaborate “goodbyes” on this and other forums, and they always are tinged with egoism and pride: playing the victim and just wanting someone to confirm them. Sincere believers will most likely go through periods of feeling far from God as well as close to God. But experience bears out that if we draw near to God, he will draw near to us.
I remember a wise person once saying: if you feel far away from God, ask yourself “who moved?”
 
When I read it I was disagreeing with what was being described as God, seems more like a description of religion.
Lot’s of people have and do experience bad teaching of who God is. The writer seems to have found the God of love.
Some of it I’ve questioned of God, though I wouldn’t call God names etc.

I think we can move away from God at certain stages of life, in order to grow and mature in our relationship with God.

Thanks.
 
Obviously written by someone with a superficial understanding of the relationship of God and man. Another person who sees God as a vending or slot machine from which the goodies flow, and if not, then God either doesn’t care or doesn’t exist. Goodbye and good luck, Stover.
 
I’ve been having some struggles with believing in God’s love for me lately , but no, i don’t relate to this at all.
 
Nope, sorry, can’t relate to this at all.
The person who wrote this sounds like they were not taught very well about God by their parents or catechists or whoever, and did not put any effort into actually increasing their mental or spiritual knowledge of God as an adult, and now have decided to write a big flouncy whiney baby blog post to get approval from other humans.

It’s hard for me to understand how anyone could even find this drivel interesting.
Yawn.
 
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I kind of felt bad for the person, but most likely it was not someone who sincerely sought God. After reading the whole things it seems that she did these things out of fear of going to hell rather than actual love for Christ.
 
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First it is good that no one so far relates to that letter (even the teaching of hell?)

I didn’t read it as someone whining about God, nor someone who didn’t really know God even if they state that, because they are pointing out what isn’t the love of God that many people do hold dear, what can be taught and then held onto for a life time and cause hatred of other people.
 
There is only one thing that i can relate to here. I had to fight for my belief in God. God was a silent God for me. I went through a lot of psychological torment and God didn’t alleviate it. But i fought for understanding and faith nonetheless because i understood that the alternative was hardly worth living…(that nihilistic free lunch ideology wasn’t fooling me) My faith is stronger for it, and my understanding has grown exponentially because of it, because my desire for God forced me to understand it.

The person who wrote the letter has given up and there seems to be a hint of glorification and triumph to it, like he or she is leaving an abusive spouse… What he or she doesn’t realize is that there is no alternative to God. The alternative is death, forever.
 
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Other than that, it is an okay poem depicting ones decent into atheism.
 
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