^^this
My personal opinion is that it was originally a control mechanism for the masses, psychologically forcing their members to follow one line of thinking that would benefit that church.

What do we do with this village full of mis-guided savages? We give them an option of heaven and hell, and as long as you do these things for us, you'll be just fine.

"But God wants you to burn that rival village down that is full of non-believers..."

And that's my big gripe about it; it may have been some kind of solution to control the populous back in the dark ages, but nowadays we have a society, and while ignoring the non-voted in twat G. Brown, we have some form of democracy, no matter how much we abuse our politicians. If the churches won, we would be in shit creek from the moment we're born.
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 9:13, 1 reply)

Speak as as ex-member of the Evangelical Church...

They're fucking loopy.

I've met, and have close personal friends who possess a strong faith and are loving sincere people. I'm glad I have them in my life.

However, one of these people, who struglled for years, knowing he was Gay, but couldn't express it due to the homophobic attitude of the Church very nearly killed himself due to the unnecessary guilt he felt for the fact of his being.

Thankfully he didn't and is a highly sucessful, happy, Gay man.
Fuck them ALL in the bin for doing that to my friend!
(caescarna Hell's Roomba, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 13:34, closed)