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"I judged it sick and heartbreaking that so many people I like have been sucked in."

Then you have made your choice. YOu will not have an excuse. Those people whom you like have made their choice. They had the same choice that you did. Those people and I believe that there will be a Judgement Day. And the sheep will be separated from the goats. The sheep will go one way and the goats will go another way. YOu will be separated from those people whom you say you like, and it will be for eternity.

Don, look at it this way:
If the Christians are right, we'll burn in hell until Judgement Day. The False Prophet and the Devil are the only ones to burn forever, according to your own scripture. I'm sure we'll learn the error of our ways.

If the Atheists are right, then we run the risk of screwing up our one shot at life by denying ourselves all kinds of earthly pleasures.

If us old heathen/pagan types are right, we get to come back and do it again and again as life recycles us.

If others are right, we come back as cows or some other animal.

Now... the big question is, whose right? The tricky part is, we will never know until we die... and then it's too late.

Find something you can live with and be happy. Try and force those beliefs on others and you not only undercut the tenets of your own religion, you may end up getting hurt.