Interesting reading. I'm also faithless, so it's always a little fascinating to see how somebody else came to (more or less) the same place. I'm not familiar enough with Judaism to know of the story you spoke of that initially turned you off it, but I always thought there were similar hidden moral trap in the types of Christianity I grew up hearing about - the whole idea that people could be gleefully living out in heaven while others were tortured for eternity for no sin other than simply not believing in a being who could make himself known, but doesn't, always struck me as extremely horrifying and was one of the early nails in the coffin of my faith (I am aware that some Christians, and other religions, don't believe in everlasting torment, and some think that you might go to heaven even if you didn't believe if you were a good person, but that wasn't what I'd been exposed to as I was young and forming my ideas about religion... although ironically not much of my exposure was directly by my family, who were religious but didn't really go to church or talk much about the specifics).
I'm glad you found my babbling relatable and interesting. Religion is a very tricky thing... because it can be a good thing, but so often it is used in horrible ways instead. Faith of course is a completely seperate issue... well at least for me, but the two end up so linked in our minds.
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