(November 21, 2016 at 5:55 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Sure, there's no gun at their heads ... but it's fearfully difficult to break a lifetime of programming.
That's true. While I don't, my wife still gets a twinge of guilt now and then over not going to church. And I think the "you have to go to church or burn in Hell" dogma is what kept me going for a while when I was having serious doubts way back when.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.