re: #155 MandyManners

Telling a toddler/pre-schooler about Hell?! That makes no sense at all.

There was a lot of bad religious mojo in my family when I was very young. My parents families were from 2 different protestant churches and there was one fight right after another. Neither church would baptize me. My mother had to take me to a Christian Science church to be baptized because no one else would do it. To me, that right there is even more asinine than telling a child about hell.

At the same time my father’s mother was becoming a born-again Christian which made all of this even worse and led to me going to that pre-school. They apparently had no problem at all telling toddlers about hell… everyday. They were completely shocked and confused that my parents had a problem with this.

All of this nonsense is why I never trusted American evangelical protestant churches or self-proclaimed “born-again” Christians, and still don’t for the most part. The best thing I can say about them is that sometimes they cant see the forest for the trees.