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Some thoughts on religion, ethics, morality and mythology

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OK, here’s the thing. I’m going to try to walk a delicate tight-rope here, but I have strong feelings about this, so I’m going to be as honest as I can.

I’m very concerned that there seems to be a push from a fairly large percent of the population of the US to make this a “Christian Nation”.

I was raised in the Presbyterian church, so I have some familiarity with the teachings of Christ. It seems to me that a lot of things being advocated in the name of Christ are not exactly what he had in mind, assuming he existed as documented in the New Testament.

In my tweens and early teens I started having doubts, but at 14 or 15 I took confirmation classes and joined our church, mostly because it was expected of me.

As I grew older, the more I though about it the more it seemed that there were people, including our pastor and my parents, who were telling me they knew things they could not possibly know, like that there was a God, he was a Christian God, and that they knew …