(January 5, 2016 at 1:39 pm)Old Baby Wrote: Christianity (more specifically, Pentecostalism) became my reality before I was old enough to think for myself. This was the reality branded on my young mind by the people who loved me. They were my parents. They would never intentionally hurt me. They were acting for my benefit, so that I would be with them for eternity. I had no reason to doubt them or the hundreds of other adult authority figures who I saw gathering at church every week. Aside from that, there was the very real terror that preachers and Sunday school teachers instilled in my mind about that place that all people would go to who did not follow the bible and live good Jesus-led lives. This is why I have no tolerance for those atheists who deride Christians like they are some kind of subhuman disease. While it's true that they might have a disease, they aren't the disease itself, but merely victims who don't realize they need a cure.
Well put and welcome.
