I mostly believed Christianity briefly recently... you know what hurt the most?

[Minimalist]

I was a Roman Catholic from day zero

That explains much. Those bastards can really fuck up your head if you pay too much attention to them. Fortunately, recovery is possible.


Meanwhile....

http://www.livescience.com/16019-death-e...ained.html

Near-death experiences are often thought of as mystical phenomena, but research is now revealing scientific explanations for virtually all of their common features. The details of what happens in near-death experiences are now known widely—a sense of being dead, a feeling that one's "soul" has left the body, a voyage toward a bright light, and a departure to another reality where love and bliss are all-encompassing.

The one thing you don't want to do is listen to morons like G-C.