(6/13/2005) Throughout my teenage years I was a born-again Christian. Now in my twenties, I’m not. Without getting overly dramatic or focusing on every detail, the primary reason for this change was an extinguishing of the belief that everyone but me was going to hell. Make no mistake about it, the people of this faith believe that they are in store for an afterlife of bliss in heaven and non-believers will toil in hell for all eternity. This dynamic caused me to live through most of my teenage years in fear of what would happen if I were to question it, as to do so could mean I was volunteering for damnation. It was fear that stunted my natural inclination to question the world around me in terms of religion.
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