I must have been about 11 or 12.

My friend said he had heard of a kind of youth club at this church in the country - they had giant volleyball, free food etc. Not the greatest night out, but with it being the summer holidays with nothing else to do, I agreed to go along just for the jack.
The giant voleyball was mediocre at best. When it finished, the dude running it said we were going to have food, so we should thank God first. Okay, I thought; I suppose this is a church setting - let's get the God stuff over with and stuff our faces.
After being given less crisps than you'd find in a packet of Walkers we were then subject to an hour long plus lecture about how we were all going to go to hell for our sins unless we repented. We (physically) were't allowed to leave until we'd asked Jesus to repent us of our sins. Now, if I were a few years older I would've stood up for myself a bit more but, just wanting to leave, did as I was asked.
To cut a rather long and (doubtfully QOTW winning) story short, it turned out these guys had actually physically beaten some other kids the week before. My school asked me to write a statement - so I wrote a couple of pages explaining how I was coerced into doing as they told me, which ended up getting them convicted and put away. I've always been sceptical of religion since. It's crazy how something with a good underlying moral code can breed such halfwits.
( Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 23:57, 1 reply)

I think you'll find
the halfwits in question are bred by the subspecies homo sapiens sapiens.

Whether or not any infestations of homo sapiens sapiens are the fault of God is, apparently, open to some debate.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Tue 6 Sep 2011, 14:17, closed)