When I was seven my family moved to Shreveport, Louisianna from Minniapolis, Minnesota. At the time I was a pretty devout little christian, but I also was raised by pretty rebelious parents who had gone to UW Madison (which sums it up there), so I was pretty open minded and tolerant of other people and their religions. Soon after I moved there I quickly became friends with a kid on my street who also had just moved to Louisianna from N. Carolina.
One day we were playing toy guns, and I brought up evolution, which in my family has always been accepted. My friend, being a very devout Baptist told me that I was going to go to hell and at the moment he ran inside his house and got his mom to come out. She then read to me a series of passages from the bible 'explaining why' I will go to hell. Thus began my decline in faith in a religion that discourages rational thought.
One day I went to church with my friend to a baptist megachurch. There I went to a bible school class which...
2007-12-31
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