By tekHedd ~ I t's not a new word for me, but you don't hear it very often unless you're talking about the Nazis: Untermensch . So here I was in a nice friendly discussion on a web forum, and unfortunately the original discussion had something to do with religion. Well, it's not really unfortunate until someone decides they need to try their latest political talking point. (Or everyone does.) And of course things got a bit heated but mostly fairly reasonable. I am personally in favor of keeping god out of government so that it won't start telling us all how and when to pray, and to whom, but... well... I mean I'm open to rational arguments to the contrary. The way I see it, if you don't trust your government to manage your health care, how can you trust them with your soul? But hey whatever. I avoided the entire religion-in-government part of the discussion, because it was off topic. Same old boring talking points. And then there was this post, which...

By tekHedd -- I think I'm over it now. I've had more than 25 years to work through issues, and when I started reading books and this site, I made a lot of progress healing in a short time. Image by Storm Crypt via Flickr At this point in my life, religion is more of a political issue than a personal problem. Exchristian.net has been a big help in that respect, and I'm grateful (if cynicism hasn't entirely poisoned that word for you) to all of the people who have posted here. I thought I would share my pitiful little experience for what it's worth. When you're brought up Christian, you can't entirely separate the religious brainwashing from the completely normal traumatic experience of being a child and having parents. You wash your hands after going to the toilet, you pray before you eat. And so as a child I definitely believed, but what does that mean? At that age you're still having nightmares and pulling the covers over your head for protection ...