Me too. We had a small Church that was literally less than a 5 minute walk from my house and the minister lived right across the street.
I started falling away as my life got ****tier and ****tier to the point of a failed suicide attempt when I was 13. As part of trying to get myself back on track I did a very serious read of the bible from cover to cover. After digesting it all I made the absolute decision that it was a load of wishful thinking, along with a few good moral lessons, and a whole lot of hate, fear, revenge, and shaming wrapped up in fairy tales.
Bought a guitar at 14, learned how to rock, and voila', I was saved.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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