Recent content by longwaydown

Three wishes...I wish humans were incapable of self-deceit, I wish humans didn't fear others' differences, and I wish that all the colonizers of the world had respected and honored the indigenous nations they imposed themselves on, instead of killing them or forcing them to assimilate.

I'm still dealing with religious cult-based trauma suffered decades ago, but that experience had nothing to do with my atheism. I remember as a young kid listening to the fire and brimstone sermon du jour and knowing that I could never devote myself to a cruel god.