I guess that I am more interested in the difference that you see. Each person has a reason for why they were pulled towards the idiologies that they go to. Every little bit of info about your opinons on christianity makes it more apparent to me that my teaching of christianity are very very different than you have been taught. In my teaching original sin is more the explination of why we do wrong and why we have free will, or freesom to choose if you will. It has never been taught as this all powerful, insure you are going to hell dispite beleiving in Jesus that you've been taught. I knew that there were teaching of christianity that weren't very nice (or hopeful) I just never realized how harmful that type of views are. Where I have been taught love, hope and a truely caring God; you sound as if you've been taught hate, venegfulness and futility. You'd have to tell me if that assumption is correct or not.