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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to think you had to attend church to be a good person. I witnessed so much hypocrisy in the Catholic Church that I just couldn't keep attending, much less continue inculcating my kids. I am agnostic and questioning. Some of the kindest, most decent and ethical people I know do not attend church and a few of them are atheists.[/quote]

I have an evangelical friend who shrieks about how [b]you "have no moral compass" if you do not believe in God[/b]. I tell him that as a child in Sunday School (Lutheran) I figured out that you can do anything you want as long as you accept Jesus and repent before you die. [/quote]

those are the scare tactics used by religion -- not just evangelicals - to tell people that non-believers are inherently bad.  Unfortunately, it can keep non-believers from acknowledging their lack of belief.  They know they aren't bad, but also know that religious people will think they are bad.

Another scare tactic is the threat of hell.  If you really think you will suffer eternally for failing to believe, you may try very hard to believe, even if the concept of a loving but punishing god doesn't make much sense to you.[/quote]

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