No how!

@Willow_Wisp sorry mate, the comment was more on the peope who had made comments than it was on your original post. ( in aussie "mate" is a gender neutral pronoun )

It's just a lie transferred from parents to children, an funny enough the ignorant ones never dear to question this made up stories

@harristics7 there are many lies transmitted this way and it seems we often only question them when they are confronted or don't work. Lies about men's and women's roles, lies about lgbti, lies about politics etc. How many people vote a particular way because that's what they were.taught by yheir parents for instance?

I was same. I consider myself intelligent and open minded but the brainwashing is strong especially the hell part. Oftentimes I would start to think rationally but my fear of hell would override that and I would shut it off. I think most Christians should feel sorry for. It’s a helluva burden to think everything you do is being counted against you. I stayed in a horrible marriage for 10 years because I thought that was what god wanted

@Cyklone All the conservative people I grew up with in Alabama are no longer in my life, not family, nor friends. I stuck around long enough to know beyond any doubt that they wanted nothing to do with me before I rejected them in mass. Am I bitter? Fuck yes! There's no fixing it either, there's no way home because home never existed.

@Willow_Wisp I'm sorry it worked out that way for you as it was socially, an easy process for me. I was very lucky as many of my friends, were already atheist and the ones that aren't are still my friends and the issue never comes up. Aussies are predominantly nonreligious though, so generally accepting of differences. You cement my belief that the US must be a terrible place to live.

@Cyklone I see no reason to pry into the minds of other people. I'm sure I have a set of delusional opinions of my own, but I'm not saying anyone should hold my opinions unlike a few billion people I don't think I have to identify.

@Willow_Wisp the crucial difference, unless it impacts on us. Although we are guilty of wanting to enforce the opinion that other's opinions shouldn't be enforced on anyone else. sorry, couldn't resist.

Dude has some good points there

That does not surprise me. I see Christians as a whole as being one of the most willfully ignorant sections of society.

Yes they are. Not always logically or skeptically, but they are capable

Christians are blinded by the faith concept ,and I don't get how you are told to believe an idea without reason or prove

And going by some of those 'Born Again Christians' I have the great misfortune to meet I'd have to agree with you 110% on that one.

Completely true ,how can people accept to live their lives based on a book that is full of murders, that kill in the name of "God"

@harristics7 Don't forget mass rape. After defeating another tribe tribe such as the Amalakites, Moses, according to the bible, took all the virgins for himself and his men and killed the married women. The bible, revealing itself as a paragon of virtue.