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[Cracker]

Here's how you can tell if you have been brainwashed since childhood:

(It's a personal thing, you don't have to report your reaction)

Say this to yourself: "Jesus was NOT the Son of God"

If you can't do it, or you cringe, or you have a physical, visceral reaction (fear or shame): You might have a little psychological damage due to your religious upbringing. What other personal belief can cause such a reaction?

As I said in another thread, we use the fear of eternal damnation to scare kids into religion. We start when they are young and still developing so that it is good and rubbed-in by adulthood.

You should be able to say those words, they are just words, without much reaction. Most people can't. I will let the love of my family affect me in that manner, but not the fear of some bullshit somebody else made up a few thousand years ago.

Not trying to be offensive. Just sharing my POV.