(RR fan mail)
Naturally at a young age, I was extremely into the end times. During my years of 4th grade when I was about ten, the whole Left Behind series was all the rage. So I read them. They freaked me out of my mind. I remember even being so afraid, so scared that God was going to take me through this time that I would sit up late at night asking God to kill me before the year 2008. Because God gave me a strong feeling that when I was 18, in 2008, the prophetic ball would start rolling. Mind you, I was ten years old. All I could think about was how I was going to get my head chopped off if I didn't take the mark. Either that or starve to death because I wouldn't take it. Not exactly the brightest future for a ten-year old.
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It's 2009.
What does that tell you?
A perfect demonstration on why the church likes to "get 'em young". Indoctrinate them young and you've got 'em for life.
Although you are making progress, you are aware that your views were daft at 10 years, now keep following that logic and you could be free of all that nonsense.
Naturally at a young age, I was all about having fun and never worried about anything because I knew my parents would protect me.
Naturally. Because I grew up in a family of normals, not mind-fucked funditards.
"They freaked me out of my mind."
Judging by the rest of your ridiculous blather, that wouldn't be very hard - your mind is obviously very tiny.
Religious child abuse resulting in mental problems for the poor kid, now he is totally delusional.
His parents should have been charged with child abuse and neglect.
The rest of the mail goes on to say how he's just SO excited for the END OF THE FUCKING WORLD.
Seriously, how do they not realize that they're a death cult?
"They freaked me out of my mind."
As opposed to, say, freaking you out of... what?
"I remember even being so afraid, so scared that God was going to take me through this time that I would sit up late at night asking God to kill me before the year 2008."
That's a god worth worshipping? A god one has to beg not to kill you?
"Not exactly the brightest future for a ten-year old."
Not exactly the brightest future for anyone, of course, I can't imagine you were the brightest ten-year old either.
Your "years of 4th grade"?
So you had failed at least one grade... or two.
And child in a death cult.....
And the christian right thinks violent video games and sex on tv is the problem. Here was a child litterally begging for god to kill him because he thought the things he read in a fantasy novel series were real. I wonder how often he thought about killing himself? What a horrible childhood. The writers of those books should be ashamed of themselves. Its ok to write scary stories, but dont tell the children the stories are going to come true!
For me it was Ender's Game. That book really fucked me in the head when I read it... never even heard of the Left Behind stuff until coming here. Wait, you took it seriously?
I don't think religion is child abuse. I think you should bring a child up in a religion (not a cultish one, please) so they have context and foundation for belief. When they reach teenagerhood they get to choose their path(s) or even lack thereof. I have run into too many militant anti-religion and anti-belief people who have never even bothered to understand what they are rallying against. It is quite another thing to disagree and argue against something you've at least had some experience with beyond the kind of junk we read here or get from the news.
Antichrist
What the fuck is with all this starving to death bullshit? Are they really so stupid they don't know how to plant a seed? How to rig a fishing pole? How to set a small snare? Hell most grouse you can walk up to and bonk over the head.
I was thinking much the same thing. I thought these people were supposed to be so self-sufficient and homesteadery.
Now that's some f**ked up sh*t right there, yes sir. Sounds like anonymous was raped by his pastor as a young kid, causing him irreparable mental damage which manifest itself as an irrational fear of mythical old world stories. I'd say get this child some STRONG medication and a very good psychologist, but in reality, he or she might be better served being locked up in an institution so that at least any future children will be spared the trauma of indoctrination with this kind of crazy.
"During my years of 4th grade when I was about ten, the whole Left Behind series was all the rage. So I read them. They freaked me out of my mind."
So did the "GooseBumps" series for a lot of kids, but somehow, they still figured they were fictional too, and grew up.
Welcome to my childhood, which I spent in such terror of hell, it caused me nightmares the time I accidentally broke a plate while helping my grandmother dry them, thinking that surely my punishment for doing such a thing was going to be horrible indeed.
I don't miss christianity at all. I do, however, have pity for the members of my family who still put themselves through the mental torture of forcing themselves to believe in it and go to church each Sunday.
As for me, I'm a happy Pagan, and delighted to no end that my children aren't being given the same religious upbringing that I had. They're happy with this too.
Later in the letter, he makes this comment. It supposedly happened during an election party he threw last year and made by a gay youth:
He said, "Oh my gosh. If Jesus returns here soon, I'm not going to be taken away with him. I'm living a complete life of sin. I'm gone. I'm going to be left here behind. I hope the Lord waits for me to straighten up before He returns". I thought that was the oddest thing a non-believer could ever say.
Becuase it never did?
It was as if his very soul was screaming out of his body and I don't even think he would remember saying that.
What BS. Lying for Jebus is still lying, dim-wit
Meh'ing this. I was brainwashed the same way as a kid, felt the same about the "End Times," and I turned out sane.
Not to mention the entire thing is in past tense. How do you know he isn't a clever troll attempting to show how horribly bleak Rapturism is? (See, Religious Reich, we can make up words too!)
I'm sorry guys, I'm tempted to see this as a Poe the RR's didn't catch.
That reminds me of the time I finished "Pet Sematary" at like 5 a.m. and couldn't go to sleep for the rest of the night because it freaked me out so bad.
My advice to you would be to stay away from books. Obviously they are too much for you to handle.
Only a Christian would tell you that an angry, vengeful God who is going to throw everyone into Hell who doesn't toe his line, as described in a collection of short books written by ancient cultists, is "Good News".
"Naturally at a young age, I was extremely into the end times"
How does that work? Naturally at ten I was in the 'I'm immortal' stage, young boy looking ahead at my life. Luckily religion wasn't even a regular thing in my life, I never encountered anyone who spoke against it but I wasn't indoctrinated in it either. My parents gave me no direction to follow in religion.
Good move Mom and Dad
As to the parents of 'Anonymous'. Shame on you
"I remember even being so afraid, so scared that God was going to take me through this time that I would sit up late at night asking God to kill me before the year 2008"
"Please, oh great Cthulhu, eat me first!"
Reading pap like Left Behind is why you got left behind, and fouth grade was years for you. I had a more normal childhood. During my YEAR in fourth grade, my teacher read us "Tales of a Fouth-Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume. If you had done the same, you might not be the whack job you are today.
This isn't the greatest fundy quote. After all - the anonymous poster admits to have only been ten years old - an age where anything is still possible in their imagination. S/he was just a kid at the time. When I was ten, everyone was afraid of terrorism because of September 11th. Does that make me a crazy anti-Muslim fundy now?
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