Why I left Christianity

There was a teenage boy who had been raised in a good christian home. He spent most of his life just trying to fit in. Trying to be what he thought everyone wanted him to be. But life has a way of being cruel and this boy developed some pretty severe mental illness. He was wired differently than everyone he knew and it seemed like no one could understand him. Everything that made him an individual was demonized and he tried so desperately to fit into the hive mind that in the end it was as if he did not exist. He despised himself because he thought that he was despicable before the eyes of god. There was a period of time that he desperately wanted to have an intimate relationship with this Christian god (the sort of relationship that everyone told him about). The church told him that god…