When I grew up, I was forced to attent Jehovah's Witnesses meetings once every week, and had to attend bible study twice a week. I was never asked if I was willing to attend such meetings because, as a child, my views and opinions were worth nothing; and because the central dogma of Christianity is that children have no right of self-determination and no right of conscience.
I was told a whole load of nonsense including the idea that if I got a tattoo or if my sister wore a mini-skirt, we would all go to hell. I was also told I would never be able to marry anybody who was not a Jehovah's Witness.
I realised before the age of around 13 that the supposedly spiritual goal of churches is actually a lie; a lie that exists in order to force people into social conformity and to make people stupid so that they spend their time working for their religious group rather than for their community as a whole. I also discovered that the leaders of such churches are hypocrites, child-abusers, and money-grabbing people, and liars, and despite their protestations that they are concerned with the spiritual life, are actually more concerned with their own financial enrichment.
I was a rather clever 13 year old, because my initial views of the Christian religion have never been proven to be false.
Mick
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