Glad to hear church wasn't the reason

[thesummerqueen]

Well, not so horrible. I would rather go to hell than disseminate the uninformed tattle of fundamentalism.

Well, sure, I'd rather 'laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints', I'm just sayin' it's a shitty thing to say to maybe a young person who's still figuring things out. Sort of like how they introduce little Jewish kids to mental anguish by taking them to Yom Kippur services and saying that you can either be written in the Book of Life or the Book of Death, and it all depends on how well you apologize to god and everyone around you for a 10 day period. It makes a person neurotic. I've never heard a rabbi go off on a jew and say god probably wouldn't be wasting 'ink' on him/her, but I certainly would rather hear a jewish friend say "I saw through the bullshit, man" than anything else.

But that goes along with what's already been said in the thread - you want a deconversion based on reason, not emotion.