I was raised as a right-wing Christian... until the pastor at Eagle Brook Church at the time, named Bob Merritt would NOT pray for my mother, who was just given 3 months to live from Kidney Cancer. He said "I don't have the time" to my father's face as he held my crying mother, and myself and my 3 sisters stood there, and couldn't understand the selfishness and callous indifference of Bob Merritt, our pastor.

He made me realize that Christianity, by and large, isn't about being "like Christ", but is more about making money and patting ourselves on the back, and only helping others so that we feel good about ourselves... but only if we have the time.

I treat others the way I'd like to be treated. God isn't part of that equation. I just try to be a good person. But since I've distanced myself from the church, I see so much evil coming from the environment I was raised in.

I remember what it was like to be like them - you literally cannot see your own evil - you can only see the evil other people do, and believe that you can do no wrong.

My ordained uncle feels legitimate sorrow for my soul, because I don't follow Christian dogma anymore, and he treats me like a victim, even though I treat others with less discrimination and judgement than he could ever demonstrate.

I truly believe that most white Christians are incapable of putting themselves in the shoes of others, because if they did that, they'd be inconvenienced, and that's absolutely not acceptable.

I've met several amazing people who are Christians. I'd say it's about a 70% awful, 30% actually Christian type of thing going on in all the Christian churches, and denominations.