Thanks, it's a good feeling to know you're on the right track, and are a good person, because you just ARE. Many Christians are genuine, loving people, who happen to use it as the reason for their actions.... but I suspect that deep down they are good people anyway, and that just happens to be the way they understand reality.
Of course, these people also happen to be what you would call a "liberal christian", meaning when you ask them about Hell and original sin and that sort of thing, they start to get uncomfortable and want to change the subject, because it doesn't ring true for them. These are the Christians that have no problem with other religions, and probably feel some guilt for helping to spread a harmful belief system, yet still have some fear of throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Then there are the Christians who are judgemental pricks, who use religion as a means of making themselves look better than everyone else, they want to feel like they are special and you are a loser, unless you agree with them, and they can teach you to be special, like them. They are no different than any other harmful, destructive ideology, religious, or secular/political, in my mind it's all the same thing.
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