What would you do if you found out God existed

[Astonished]

Humility and introspection are good qualities, to be sure. But this degree of self-loathing seems more like inverted megalomania.

Darkest of souls? Deserving worse punishment than most people on earth? Really?  

I'm pointing out his good qualities (the ones I see anyway) so that he will appreciate the good in himself. I wasn't trying to say the self loathing was good.

And your attempts will be just as futile as ours to tell him how deluded he is. But you have the same indoctrination you've been put under to blame for him ending up the way he did, just the ingredients in the recipe were a little different. You're lucky yours was a more benign and passive sort or you'd be flagellating yourself at night too.

And I think when anomalous made that remark about suicide bombing, it was meant more as a 'you sound like you're into self-harm to the point where I wouldn't be surprised if you blew yourself up, but if you do get to that point, at least be courteous enough to do it where you won't take anyone else down with you.' Mook's ranting about how fucked-up he is constitutes a serious red flag where it's not unthinkable that with the right promise of redemption, he'd pull the cord on a bomb vest in a crowded place.

But you're not really one to talk about not feeling guilty, Miss Catholic. Feeling guilty about things you've done that hurt others is one thing, and you can easily make amends for them (most of the time). But this whole shtick about guilt over bad thoughts, victimless crimes like blasphemy and 'sin', and the hyperbolic idea of hell, what the fuck do you expect to happen to someone's mental state juggling all that horseshit? Would you be so naive as to say that he wouldn't be better off with no religion at all than what he's currently infected with?