Well, for me it was sooooo bloody liberating to leave all that claptrap behind me. It was finally OK to just BE. I'd guess that it is like that for many who get brought up in a religion. (I have a sister who runs her parish's Sunday school. The other joined a convent at 14.) Now it's a long time later and it still feels liberating. But actually my life is not any different beyond it is more free than it was. I'm just the same person, do the same things on a daily basis. Wish I knew why your true believer types make such a big deal out of it. Maybe they see it as a kind of threat?
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
