Like most people, I was brainwashed into believing that Christianity was the only "true" religion and that anyone who didn't adhere to it was going to hell. My parents made me go to church during my teens. Truthfully, I never liked going. I hated the chruch's hypocrisy, the way they treated non-christians and homosexuals. I got "saved" when I was fourteen because my mother kept badgering me to do so. She repeatedly told me I was going to go to hell if I didn't get saved. (This was hurtful psychologically.) Anway, as I got older I strayed from the church though I did not deconvert at the time. I'm 22 now and have done some extensive research into the true origins of Christianity and the bible. Here are some of the reasons that caused me to deconvert:

1. The evil morality of god. I don't know of any other way to say it. He degraded women, forced women to marry their rapists, sanctioned slavery and the beating of slaves, GENERATED evil, lied, broke all of his own commandments, sent lying spirits to deceive people and so on. He told his people to "show no mercy" when they were engaged in battle, and encouraged plundering (stealing). He also butchered people indiscrimanetly, young and old alike. He also slaughtered children left and right. How Christians can say that god is against abortion is beyond me. God sure as hell did an awful lot of killing.
2. The forgeries of the early Christian Church. The church forged almost the entire New Testament. They've tampered with the text to make it read exactly what they wanted it to read so that they could control the masses. Then, they had the audacity to brutally murder anyone who dared to disagree with their pious lies!!!
3. The insurmountable amount of contradictions in the bible. (Holey Babble?) All the praying and rationalizing in the world isn't going to make this severe problem go away. Christians can apologize all they want, but when you take two verses that are talking about the exact same thing, and the verses flatly contradict each other, then you've got a real problem.
4. The brutal and bloody history of Christianity. Christians, bastards that they are, decided for the whole world that their religion was the only valid one and decided that all others were wrong. Millions of people have suffered unspeakable tortures and death at the hands of this religion. (I shudder to think that people like Pat Robertson and the Christian Coalition want to make America a "Christian Nation". They have way too much power and influence in our government. All I can say to my fellow Americans is: WATCH OUT! We don't need to let them in our government.)
5. The fact that most of the stories in the bible are nothing more than amalgamations and plagiarisms of much older pagan religons. The creation story is not unique, The Flood Story was plagiarized from the Epic of Gilgamesh, Levitical Law had nothing to do with the bible or god, but was stolen form the Code of Hammurabi. Also, the idea of a savior being born of a virgin to "save" mankind from their sins is not unique either. There were dozens of other crucified virgin-born saviors. Of course, the church has done an excellent job of suppressing this important information from people. They are afraid that people will find out the truth.

All I can say is that I sincerely detest Christianity and wish to see it destroyed. Maybe I shouldn't be this way but I can't help it.

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