God

[tigertail777]

I have a hang up with the whole religion thing.

I was force fed religion till I wanted to throw up. I went to a religious school and they wouldnt let me eat my lunch I myself brought from home until I had memorized the memory verses for that day. Well my memory has never been the greatest, so sometimes I didnt get to eat lunch until almost time to go home. I had a lot of crazy teachers and stuff too; one would open this huge cabinent in our class and listen to it creak and then exclaim "my! isnt that relaxing?"

Later I went to yet another christian school on the insistance of my mother who I am sure thought I was going to go to hell (and I am sure still thinks it in the back of her mind). We couldnt afford to pay for the full tuition, so I had to stay after school and do chores for the school. They made me do the strangest things: scraping tape labels off old tapes so they could reuse them over and over for the bible broadcasts they sold in the little biblical store they ran. There was a christian comic book I had to put price tags on... I accidentally put one over the face of Jesus on the cover and they wigged out.

All of that kinda stuff and more hasnt sat right with me since. I really get verbal when people try to force religion on me because of all this crap that happened when I was younger. I do beleive in God, but am unsure what kind of God he may be to allow his little fan clubs to run amok like this. For those that beleive in christianity I am not trying to be insulting, but please bear in mind when you preach the good word to tread softly dont stick it down peoples throats.