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I am impressed by everone who has posted! It's nice to see everyone accepting others beliefs.
My Mother was a religious fanatic of sorts. I was raised in a Christian Church but around age 6 my cousin and I "escaped" Nursery School and wandered around the church. We found the room where they kept communion. We drank all the communion and ate all the crackers....one of the Elders of the Church caught us and told us we were going straight to Hell. That was the start of fear in me. I would have panic attacks at night thinking any little bad thing I did would give me a one-way ticket to Hell. That really stayed with me. My Mother also cultivated that same fear in me. I have been baptized 6 different times in 6 different religions. All because my Mom thought it was "The True One" each time.
Now I choose to believe in God and Jesus. I don't trust organized Religion. I also don't believe in Hell. My friends know that I am not religious...but if you come to my house it has a ton of Religious Reliquary and Catholic Art. For some reason I am extremely attracted to the same images that instilled so much fear in me.
My Mother was a religious fanatic of sorts. I was raised in a Christian Church but around age 6 my cousin and I "escaped" Nursery School and wandered around the church. We found the room where they kept communion. We drank all the communion and ate all the crackers....one of the Elders of the Church caught us and told us we were going straight to Hell. That was the start of fear in me. I would have panic attacks at night thinking any little bad thing I did would give me a one-way ticket to Hell. That really stayed with me. My Mother also cultivated that same fear in me. I have been baptized 6 different times in 6 different religions. All because my Mom thought it was "The True One" each time.
Now I choose to believe in God and Jesus. I don't trust organized Religion. I also don't believe in Hell. My friends know that I am not religious...but if you come to my house it has a ton of Religious Reliquary and Catholic Art. For some reason I am extremely attracted to the same images that instilled so much fear in me.