Reply #33: Oh, man, that brings back memories.

[Yunomi]

My parents are agnostic, but my grandparents were Methodist so I was brought up with real half-assed religious belief. I thought of myself as Christian, when I (rarely) thought about it. One night I went with some friends to a "youth gathering" at a backwoods Baptist church. An old lady approached me and asked if I'd been baptized. "Yes ma'am, when I was a child". "Oh, that wasn't a real baptism," she yelled. "I meant HAVE YOU BEEN WASHED IN THE BLOOD?" At that point, I began backing towards the door, having never heard this phrase before and being genuinely alarmed. I made it out alive (and unwashed) and started on my long journey through Church of Satan, Wicca, Buddhism, Native American religions, better Buddhism... well, you get the picture. Now I'm a happy non-believer, and I always thank that old Baptist lady for scaring me into thinking about it.