> Since you've apparently never heard an Atheist testimony before, let me off
> you mine. My attitude towards life has totally changed for the better since
> accepting the truth of Atheism. As a Christian, I suffered from severe
> depression, constantly trying to make up for my extreme guilt at my
> responsbility of the torture and murder of my own creator, Jesus Christ. I
> had no self-esteem, because I had been taught by the Bible that I was so
> evil, I deserved eternal torture. Likewise, I had nothing but scorn for my
> fellow human beings, because I'd been taught that they were nothing but
> dirty perverted sinners who all deserved eternal torture either. Quite
> honestly, I cannot imagine a more miserable state of mind. The only thing
> that kept me going as a Christian, was that I believe all the
> non-Christians were even more miserable than me, since that it what I'd
> been taught! I thought that my miserable was joy in comparision to not
> being a Christian.
[and more, later in the article]
Allow me to congratulate you on escaping from this ghastly caricature
of Christianity. You don't actually think all Christianity is like
that, or that all Christians feel the way you did, though -- do you?
> Having lived as both a Christian and as a non-Christian, I can assure you
> that I will never give up my wonderfully changed life to return to the
> misery and guilt of the Christian life. I hope one day you are brave enough
> to declare yourself free from the slavery of Christianity and to embrace
> true freedom.
If you really think that all or even most Christians are enslaved in
the kind of way you describe, then you're as badly wrong as the Christians
who think all atheists are miserable and depraved.
Anyway, isn't all this just a little off-topic? (I am not blaming
Rhonda for this.)
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