Thanks a lot, Church. You Fucked Me Forever.

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Well fucking said, McClain! I'm glad I stumbled onto this thread, even a month late. I too have the Christian "imprint" but have since come up with my own belief system that makes sense for me. I believe in God, but not the silly, hateful, spiteful one in the Bible.

How could Hell exist when I myself am compassionate enough that I wouldn't sentence ANYONE to an eternity of suffering for ANY crime, let alone a belief? Wouldn't that make me more compassionate than God, thus GREATER than God in something?

But I too still feel the slight pangs of guilt at times, and I wasn't even raised in a particularly religious home. I didn't go to church except when visiting my grandparents, but I guess I had all that shit drilled into me at such a young age that it's going to be in there to some extent forever.

I've often wondered if I ever have children how I should raise them with regard to religion. I don't want to force ANYTHING down their throat, but I don't even know if simply saying "here's what I believe, and you don't have to believe the same thing" would be too much.