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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up going to church and public school.  My church was pretty liberal in many ways (supported gay rights, believes in science etc) and I still left.  So did my siblings.

Why?  Because I could never reconcile the idea that God loved us so, yet hung the threat of eternal damnation over our heads to keep us in "faith".  All you had to do to be saved was believe.  So you be a very good person, who happened to be Jewish, and you would go to hell.  And you could be a terrible, awful person who believed in Jesus and thus would be saved.  That is the central, most abiding tenet of Christianity.

Those thoughts crept in while I was in high school, and was still very involved in my church.  In college, I still went to church here and there, but much less.  Eventually I just couldn't get around that piece of it and stopped going.  No amount of religious thought yoga gets you around it.  Christians don't believe that good people matter.  They only believe Christians matter.  I don't agree or believe that.  Thus I am an adult who does not have a religion.[/quote]

It's amazing religion lasted as long as it did into the scientific age.[/quote]

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