'My God makes no mistakes': Texas Senate OKs ban on gender-affirming care for young Texans

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29. "God hates you" is the basis for most religions

“God hates you the way you are, no matter how good of a person you are, and will throw you in a lake of burning tar for all eternity after you die. But if you change everything about yourself so you’re the way we want you to be, and you give us all your money and all your possessions, you might - might, I say, there’s always the chance of burning tar if you slip up just a little - escape the lake and go to somewhere nice after you die.”

War story follows: The printing plant in North Carolina that I worked at, that no longer exists because the owner’s wife caught him in bed with another woman and murder-suicided him, donated a job advertising some big charity event to an extremely hardcore Christian church...who, of course, attempted to convert me while I was designing their piece. They told me that Heaven was this wonderful place where all you have to do is lay around and be waited on hand and foot by sinners who didn’t see the light and join their church. I told the preacher that “being waited on hand and foot” sounds like the worst possible thing that could ever happen to me, and I’d much rather be one of the people doing the serving.