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Thursday  Apr 27, 2006

Every BODY Has a Story: Féth Less (Faithless)

"I grew up in a religious family. My parents were Christian, born-again evangelicals, and we went to church every Sunday.

Though they were religious, they were pretty moderate in some ways. I had to go to church, but we did not do any other extra-curricular church activity other than Sunday services.

The other kids I hung out with were very religious too. In fact, all the people I hung out with who were my age all went to the same church. At our church, there was a program called ‘Youth with a Mission’, or ‘King’s Kids’.

My friends and I became very involved with this evangelical program. I was about fourteen when I decided to take Christianity much more seriously. I really believed in Christianity, and I felt like it was my ordained duty to help people understand by spreading the word.

The program that we participated in was mostly singing and choreographed dances. We traveled all over the world (Canada, Mexico, Greece, Albania, Spain, and the Philippines) singing Christian rock songs. Most often, we sang in churches, but sometimes we sang in the street or on a boardwalk.

I did not do this in order to travel. I didn’t really get a chance to spend anytime seeing any of the other countries anyway. We were busy with performances all the time. My parents were all right with my evangelicalism, but they did not share it in the same way I did, at all.

I took this all very solemnly until I was about sixteen. At that point, my parents got divorced. After they were divorced, everyone in the church shut them out. These are the people I had known since I was born. The whole thing was disgusting.

A that point, I came to my senses about religion. I guess everyone needs to find their own beliefs at some point outside of their community and their family and that was my time to figure it out for myself. I felt after that, that Christianity was a sham, that I had been manipulated.

All of this sh-t that I had been told about what would happen to me after I died was nonsense. The bible, this book I had thus forth based my entire life on, was simply a book like any other. It was written by people. It did not fall out of the sky one day. And when you consider how many times it’s been translated, it is an even farther stretch of the imagination to believe that any person can say they do exactly as God has requested."

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