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Binkie The Clown

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6. I was seven years old, sitting in church listening to this crap about original sin, and...
Wed Dec 2, 2015, 12:58 PM
Dec 2015

... it occurred to me that, no, I was not inherently evil and sinful. I realized that in my deepest nature I am a good person. In that moment I also realized that if my religious leaders were wrong about that then they might be wrong about other things as well. It took a number of years after that to work through the details, but by the time I was a teen I had finally freed myself from the nonsense that is religion. So in a way, I owe my freedom from delusion to the doctrine of original sin. It was that particular bit of nonsense that awakened me to the realization that the whole religion thing was all nonsense.

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Makes sense that he is obsessed with other people's sexual activity Hissyspit Dec 2015 #1
Good one..and a needed laugh after reading this crap. mountain grammy Dec 2015 #2
Share this with a friend? But what if I want to keep them as friends? ChairmanAgnostic Dec 2015 #3
but why did he create us so we could sin? Ligyron Dec 2015 #4
Yeah, I know. Curmudgeoness Dec 2015 #9
My ex brother in law Jesus awoke_in_2003 Dec 2015 #24
This message was self-deleted by its author Pacifist Patriot Dec 2015 #5
Original sin is terrible Lordquinton Dec 2015 #17
I still can't make any sense of it. onager Dec 2015 #18
They like to quote Aquinas as well Lordquinton Dec 2015 #19
I was seven years old, sitting in church listening to this crap about original sin, and... Binkie The Clown Dec 2015 #6
Took me so much longer.. always was a slow learner, mountain grammy Dec 2015 #13
No, not shit . . . mr blur Dec 2015 #7
God is an asshole ... GeorgeGist Dec 2015 #8
Someone actually fucked Billy Graham? Act_of_Reparation Dec 2015 #10
lol! Tobin S. Dec 2015 #15
He mistakes the truth for idiotic fairy tale. nt LostOne4Ever Dec 2015 #11
Best thing to do with a clown - laugh at him... onager Dec 2015 #12
"one "RuPaul’s Drag Race" marathon away from the return of a vengeful Jesus" progressoid Dec 2015 #14
Hey, glad you thought of us! beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #16
Hey BMUS! progressoid Dec 2015 #20
Glad to hear it and nope, we're all still here! beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #21
Really it is an odious religion of hate. Warren Stupidity Dec 2015 #22
Doesn't even realize how far the culture has left him behind. onager Dec 2015 #23
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