Fun Easter Story

[angrychair]

Many years ago, not to long after I started to question the existence of a god or any divine being of any kind, I had a friend tell me a story related to a series of plays being put on at her church related to the approaching Easter Sunday. It was her way of trying to strengthen my shaking belief in a god.
It was the last of these plays, to be performed on the Saturday before Easter, that got my attention the most and one of many factors that helped secure my state of non-belief in a divine anything.
It was the story of two children, 14 year old brother and sister twins, that went back and forth on doing their baptism. They had gone through all the Sunday school program, talked to different relatives and then picked a Sunday to walk up front to accept Jesus and go through the baptism. The Sunday comes, and they sit in the audience, wait for the time to come and start to get up but then stop. An uncle that is very dear to them is not there that morning, home sick. They decide they won't do it that morning and wait till next Sunday in the hope that their uncle can be present. So the service ends and they leave the church and get in the car with their family. On the way home there is a serious car accident and the twins both die. Because they were not saved, they go straight to hell and burn and suffer for eternity. End of story.
First, don't get me started on how that does not jive with what the scripture actually says on the subject. The fact of the matter is that my friend delivered this story with a smile on her face. She stated it was "a 'good news' message that you must accept Jesus and be saved in order to go to heaven and that you should never pass up the chance" What a load of shit. I was horrified that anyone could tell that story and not begin to understand the implications of it.
First and foremost, that you worship a deity that would damn children to an ETERNITY of pain and suffering. The depths of the evil in that cannot be understated. To spin it as story about how important it is to get saved and accept Jesus is sick and twisted logic.

In short, it was this story and many others that sealed the deal for me.