(January 6, 2012 at 4:55 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: But I think the thing I really don't miss at all was the constant fear of offending God and being struck down & tossed into Hell, the awkward instances of going to confession and telling a priest all the supposedly bad things I did, religion classes where they kept reinforcing the punishment aspect of the religion, watching out for the boogeyman devil everywhere, and speculation on all the terrible things which would happen at the end of the world.
Yes this was defiantly a downer for me as well. Even in Protestant churches the punishment aspect is fairly strong. After ditching the sky daddy I had to shake this sinking fear that somehow god was really real and would eventually loose his patience with my experiment into Atheism and pound me into the ground or something. This is the product of 30 years of indoctrination. Ugh!
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise
