So I see you’re starting to anticipate the punches the non-theist world is throwing at you and stepping inside it to minimize the blow. Nice try, but it’s too late. The cat is out of the bag, Pandora’s box is open and the world sees all the bat-shit Christian craziness for what it truly is. Crazy. Insane. Nutbag foolishness for the elderly, infirm, the easily duped, the culturally-bred superstitious and the uneducated. Once the kids have seen the city, you can never get them back on the farm.

The internet and the ubiquitous explosion of knowledge for all is killing Christianity like a bolt of sunshine on a sick, aging vampire. It’s turning religion to dust and it’s high time. The vampire is the perfect metaphor for Christianity: It…

• drains the lifeblood from its sycophantic followers, keeping them barely alive and producing an endless supply of cash and time from them

• flourishes in the darkness of ignorance, and once exposed to sunlight it screams and shrinks away

• can be killed only by a stake in the heart of its core beliefs

• once free of its stupefying grasp, it’s followers shake off the cloak of repression and can truly start to live

As a former Christian myself, I never understood how deeply I was drugged into believing the crazy tenets of the blood-worshipping cult of Christ. I’ll never again “drink of His blood and eat of His flesh”, and now that I can see what craziness I believed and said to others, I’m ashamed at being so taken in by the creepy promises of an afterlife that only I and others that give the vampire their full soul can enjoy, and that if my family and friends were skeptics of these promises, then the pit of Hell was their reward for merely questioning my beliefs.

It’s a sick cult. Please get out while you can.