re: #79 wheat-dogghazi

Even when I was a kid, I noticed that the kids whose parents dragged them to church every Sunday were the ones who were least likely to be my friends, and most likely to be my antagonists, mostly because my parents didn’t drag me to church every Sunday.

There was a point in my life where I was very Christian. I have a Bible full of underlining from that time period, given to me by a friend who remains very dear to my heart.

Even then, I could not reconcile the notion of a loving God with that of one who could give his creations free will and then consign them to eternal damnation if they didn’t follow his word precisely. I had my ways around thinking about that (mostly involving decidedly non-Christian concepts) but …I can’t pretend I was ever comfortable with that.

I was especially not comfortable with people who evangelized constantly. If your life isn’t a good example of why someone would want to be a Christian, you’re doing it wrong.