In reply to your silly statements:
friends and contacts. It was the hardest and most lonely thing I’ve ever done. I can understand why you have fewer friends than you might expect.
I’m naturally shy so it was hard to make friends - especially as a foreigner. You may think the US and the UK are similar, but you’d be very wrong. They’re completely different culturally. Actually, shyness is not the problem for your lack of friends.
I’ve now lived outside of the USA for 12 years (35% of my life) and it’s had a profound impact on me. Here are the big areas:
1) I don’t view the USA as the center of the world.
Nor do most Americans. That view is one picked up by experiencing interactions with people in other countries and picked up by the easily influenced.
2) I stopped calling myself a Christian.
What you are really saying is that you are no longer a Christian (if you ever were). It means that you have given up on all of the Christian values. So be it, you are free to choose. Too bad that the decision is not always available in other Countries.
3) I occasionally felt embarrassed of America.
This may come as a shock to you also, because I’m also embarrassed by America’s actions. Usually it is because of America’s non-action, protecting those unable to protect themselves (Seria, Africa, etc.), feeding the hungry (enough), fixing all of the universal problems such as heart disease. The real problem is that even though we do almost all of this, is just does not seem enough.
4) I believe America’s time as #1 super-power will come to an end within my lifetime.
Just wow on this one...heh. I guess you would want us to lower our lifestyle to match - say Africa? Maybe you should be focising on what we can do to raise the lifestyles of others rather than condemning our own lifestyle. Sounds like an unfortunate view to me - ass backwards.
Yes like most countries America is doomed to become a second rate power eventually. The idea that you would hope for that is really disturbing.
You have written a fine resume for future job prospects. I wish you a very lot of help in getting work...heh.
Reading his “big four areas” makes me believe that he’s probably a homosexual. I doubt very much he left America so he could stop “calling” himself a Christian. That’s just moronic.
For instance, one of my Brit in-laws told me she had been informed that the American media was keeping news about deaths of military personnel in Afghanistan hidden from the American public. I told her every time a soldier from my area is killed, it's usually front page news in the local rag. Other military deaths are usually national news. One of my Brit in-laws nevers reads the newspaper, any books, or surfs the internet. Previous encounters with in-laws involved one who read Michael Moore's account of the 2000 prez election and swallowed it whole. So ignorance is prevalent on both sides of the ocean.
-You’ve never studied the book of Daniel.
“When I moved to the UK, most people I met didn’t believe in God or Christianity. The UK is largely a non-Christian country. All of the sudden my beliefs where seen to be strange and outdated to most people and I really had to defend them.”
- Again, you've never studied the book of Daniel. Incidentally, the reason you could not defend Christianity is most likely that you were ignorant of the Bible and lacked understanding. For further information, refer to Jesus’ parable of the Sower.
“After several years, my belief in Christianity crumbled under the constant scrutiny. This isn’t meant to be a damning statement towards Christianity or any other faith. I simply couldn’t answer the doubts I had.”
-You were never a Christian. The Holy Spirit never dwelt within you.
He didn’t really move outside of his comfort zone that much, did he?
Compared to the people who immigrated to the US from other contries or left the eastern states to settle the western states in Texas, California, Oregon, etc. etc., he’s a cake-eater.
Has he given up his U.S. passport?
How sad the infidel believes Christianity is outdated.I was born in Colorado in 1950.I enlisted in the US Army in June 1969 and served as an Army Medic until discharged Jan.1977.
Like too many Americans who call themselves Christian —I didn’t know what the Bible actually says. But I thank God my
Christian faith is not dependent upon what the world thinks of Christianity. IMO one reason for the American Independence was that the Brits had abandoned Christianity -the king No longer
defended the Faith but thought he was a Law unto himself. Read the Declaration of Independence. Like Ben Franklin said in June 1787 At the beginning of the Contest with the Brits”we had daily prayer in this very room for the Divine protection those prayers,Sir, were heard and they were graciously answered.....” Like a great American named Ronald Reagan said “IF America ever stops being one nation under God we will be a nation gone under.” How sad that someone born in Colorful Colorado was NEVER an American.That his views of Christianity seem little different than those of the pagan (who also is not an American) residing in our White House.