Why Joined

I admired my stepmother who was a Catholic and wished to please her.

Why Left

I READ books on science and my experiences as a nurses aide gave me many reasons to doubt, also I watched my christian science believing great grandmother die an awful death from heart failure and the failure of "God" to help her.

Story

I never was a strong "believer", what I read in the bible made no sense with what I could see with my own eyes and what I had learned from studying science. I saw how horribly people died in hosbitals and nursing homes, no god helped them, I also reasoned - if god was good he/her/it would not permit the horrors that exist, if god does nothing about these evils than god is NOT good, if god cannot do anything to stop evil than god is impotent and doesn't deserve to be worshiped and if god created everything and calls that "good" than god is a evil being and does not deserve to be worshiped since god would have "created" parasites, cancer, disease, hurricanes etc.

We have amazing brains why do so many people prefer to believe such silly, savage, illogical and stupid bible fables is beyond my ability to comprehend, I am not very bright and yet even I could see through the nonsense in the "holy books" and how these messages from god were written by ignorant people, surely a god could do better. I guess the will to believe is stronger than "common sense".

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