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for believing in original sin and telling the whole congregation we are worthless sinners doomed to hell without Jesus.

Original sin is a non-existent problem that has an unnecessary solution--salvation through the death of Jesus. There is no historical evidence that Jesus existed. Nothing written about him until many years after his death. There is nothing original about Christianity. It is a syncretic religion based on old mystery cults about a Chosen One.


I consider that to be emotional and mental abuse. And yet it's socially acceptable to destroy people by telling them they are worthless because of an old story about a talking snake tempting a woman to eat a fruit, acceptable to break a child's will when he wants to learn about our wonderful world all the time, and destroy his curiosity and desire to make something of himself because the ultimate virtue is obedience, not curiosity and wanting to learn. That's bad.


They don't tell kids they are unique and special and able to learn many wonderful things. They tell them they are bad and sinful and horrible if they don't accept jesus into their hearts. God is a cosmic cop watching you all the time and if you even THINK about doing something bad, that's just as bad as the deed itself. That's what George Orwell called "thoughtcrime". You're supposed to feel guilty all the time just for breathing and praise god all the time because he is immature and needs praise ALL THE TIME or else.


You are only supposed to do good because you are being threatened with hell. Albert Einstein said that if we are only motivated to be good by the threat of punishment in the afterlife, we are indeed a sorry lot. If you don't have a conscience telling you what is good and bad, you have a real problem with your mind. We should do good because it is the right thing to do to treat other people nicely, and should not need any other reward. All we know that exists is the here and now and we don't know if there is reincarnation or an afterlife. So we should be kind to others now in the present.


I had to leave Christianity because I was ready to crawl in a hole and die.


It was either leave or wish I was dead. I wish preachers would apologize to me for that.
I had to get the strength to leave and not believe the prehistoric bullshit they told me that is part of their doctrine.


Original sin is one of the most divisive, horrible, damaging ideas that mankind has ever come up with. Along with all that stuff about how slavery is good, women are inferior and are to shut up and suffer pain in childbirth, and it's just fine for god to kill thousands of people for offending him for trivial stuff. It's ok to follow Jesus when he says he has no problem with the law in the OT about killing your son for being disobedient, or cussing out a fig tree for for not fruiting out of season.


Nobody should be following the religion of a bunch of primitive, illiterate bronze age goat fuckers who thought devils caused mental illness and women were not to be touched while menstruating or after having a baby because womens' blood had magic bad powers. Women who were healers were burned as witches. Heretics were burned as well, by Catholics and Protestants both. It's not adequate guidance for our modern age, and it's deliberately stupid and counter productive. It makes no allowances for science and practices that help our mental health. They had no knowledge of science or curiosity about the stars. They thought the earth was flat and pi was three and the moon shines by its own light. None of those are true.


They could change their religion and stop spreading those pernicious harmful ideas. And be nice to people and kind and helping instead of driving them away. If god is supposed to help people on earth through people who follow him, I decided from the lack of help I got that god wanted me to starve to death, or that god was a farce. So I have no more to do with them and won't darken a Christian church. Only the Unitarian Universalists who are not specifically Christian and have no creed you have to recite.