re: christianity and reason .. atomou "I look back I just see...

re: christianity and reason .. atomou "I look back I just see closed mythical narratives with assumptions of imposed guilt cloaked as overflowing benevolence, I see control masquerading as friendship"

Yep - that was my experience as well. There's very little honesty in the whole thing, just heaps of smoke and mirrors. The trouble is you only see it clearly when you get out of it, then you wonder how you never saw it in the first place.