(June 6, 2012 at 9:50 pm)zentor Wrote: I remember one time he had me and like few other people from my youth group pray to god that he never let's s go and we always return to him
At the time I though god loved me so i did with my crocodile Christian tears
But now i wonder if I'm screwed cuz god betrayed me and I can't escApe his torment
I hope I don't give the wrong impression here, but to me this positively screams abuse of an impressionable young mind. The part about the prayer sounds to me like the kind of scare tactics that usually go along with chain letters, or their modern email offspring. I'm sure you know the sort of thing: a story about some murdered young girl or other who will appear to you at night unless you forward it to ten friends. Such things only have the power you give them and cannot hurt you by themselves.
When my nephew Chris was younger, so about twenty years ago, I caught a friend of mine who likes to think of himself as a Christian telling him in gory detail about demons who delight in torturing people and all that crap. After my friend had left, Chris came up to me, clearly frightened, and asked if any of that stuff was true. I was quick to reassure him and said basically that it was all just silly stories, which must have worked because after a while he went back to playing video games. Next time I saw my friend, I had a short sharp word with him and made it clear that he was not to do anything like that again. One thing I can't tolerate is someone preying on a child's imagination.
Bottom line here is try not to let people get inside your head, especially if what they tell you is too fantastic to be true. Such people rarely have your interests at heart.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
