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I didn't lose my faith. With apologies to Kevin Spacy, it's not like, whoops, where'd it go? Where's my faith? My faith changed from believing that the "male" deity created life to a view more of nature as spiritual, of god as both masculine and feminine (thus "goddess"), and of life as liveable--that just passing through stuff was always crap.
What really got me out of Christianity, though, was the contradictory message. Jesus said, "Worship my father; he comes before me." What do Christians do? Turn around and worship Jesus! Jesus included women and sinners. What do Christians do? Turn around and condemn sinners and treat women like second-class citizens!
I've been in Catholic schools since kindergarten--my folks are Irish-Catholic, what do you expect?. The last straw for me was when my 8th grade teacher told my buddy Andrew, who loved his dog Hallie immensely, that once Hallie died, she was gone forever because God doesn't let animals into heaven. The teacher was a nun. What the hell kind of message is that to tell kids? "Your pet isn't as important to God as it is to you." Monkey crap, folks. Just like a lot of Christian belief. The only good thing they preach (most times hypocritically) is love--but love that doesn't come before power isn't really love at all.