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Religious Diversity

For the most part, I was raised in the Southern Baptist sect of Christianity. I must say that by the time I was 9 years old, I was disillusioned about religion because of the hypocrisy I saw in how my mother (and others) lived their lives, in contrast to the words they spoke in church. By the time I was a teenager, my mother had stopped attending church, and I had long since quit. I went through a period of time when I was truly an atheist and did not believe that there was any kind of god or "higher power." Now I'm 30, and I believe God exists, and that Jesus Christ was his son and the Savior, so that makes me a Christian, but I do no belong to any particular sect, and I never attend services. I am still repulsed by my mother's (and others') hypocrisy and narrow mindedness, which they cloak with their "religious beliefs". Please understand that I am referring only to my mother and some other individuals I know personally. Obviously, I have strong......

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