A gross vulgarization of the religious experience.
I think the thing I resent christians for the most is that they made me an atheist. Between my family priest getting caught sodomizing a retarded kid and the evangelicals all being proto-fascist, greedy, bigots who worship anybody with money and power and who don't give a fuck about human life and well being, I just can't have faith. I cannot imagine, in any way shape or form, that if there is a god he has anything but extreme contempt and admonishment for these parasites. I've met cockroaches with more empathy then any of the vermin who lead the big churches in the US.
Thing is when I was a kid I actually liked going to church. I loved how ancient and mysterious everything felt. And really, what do most not-insane christians tell their kids? That god loves them unconditionally. That if you're kind, and gentle, one way or another it will come back to you. You could be ugly, you could be poor, crazy, awkward, fat, skinny, even a Swede, and you are still loved, and you are still valuable. That every moment of sadness or pain you feel is part of something bigger, and that none of it is for nothing. That you have a place in this world, no matter how small you may feel.
Believe it or not, the cynical, deranged, maniac you are currently reading was at one point a sweet, sad, little boy who just wanted people to be happy. The religious right in America took that little boy, filled his brain with shame and images of eternal, arbitrary, torment, and then beat him to death with a rubber hose.
I will never forgive those brainless insects for that. I hope there actually is a hell so I can laugh at them screaming next to me.