I got a kick out of the first story - she's having a panic attack and the church ladies tell her it's Jesus flowing through her.

You only have so much time on this earth and so much money.
Why waste your limited time and limited money on complete bullshit?

How about. All of the above.

My parents weren't religious. However, I was a pain in the ass and was subsequently physically punished. It didn't really work. I just got used to the pain.
For those taking notes: It's not okay to hit someone you love barring the self-defense possibility.

Interesting comments. One I agree with: "it’s a physiological thing." Interesting the comment, It's a pedo thing LOL. I guess it OK to be a 'pedo' but just don't eat babies. That what us libtards do. These people are really, really sicko.

I have zero interest in going to any church of any kind for the sole purpose of attending the service with the possible exception for the existence of a super animated southern baptist church as stereotyped in film and television one time for shits or a Pentecostal church on Halloween to scare the bejesus out of myself and a friend with all the speaking in tongues. But there are other circumstances I could imagine that would get me to go a time or two. That said, no such circumstance has occurred since I stopped going in the 90s.

Why allow a child to be indoctrinated...

Because young people don't have the decades of conditioning these cults give out...I have the sense that more of us left at an early age than, say, in middle age.