Popsickel7

You know what? I'm completely non-Christian. I was raised Christian and I just sort of...started asking questions and seeking answers, and this is just where I landed. This is not overly relevant.

The relevant part is that you are the first person I've heard answer that first question and do so in such an honest way that I actually respect it. To say that modern Christianity is the same as its original form is not only untruthful; it's far-fetched. It's impossible for something to last centuries and not change. But the fact that you've pointed out both good AND bad in it tells me that you follow the faith out of just that - faith - and you don't allow misguided attempts to control to cloud your judgments.

I'm not sure that the opinion of a stranger on the internet is all that important to you, but my opinion is that you're a pretty cool person.

Permission to x-post this to r/DnD?

That is exactly what gives them so much strength and power, though. It's our disapproval that gives them so much fuel. And whether you agree or not, and despite what you say you would do if it were you and YOUR mother, it's not. And Zach is very strong for loving his mother AND for leaving her. This whole situation is terrible and unpleasant, and there are multitudes of reasons she should be brought to answer for her crimes against mankind, but say you sway him to badmouth his mother; What then? How do you then send a message of love when you have crippled its loudest speaker with his own hate?

These atrocities need to stop, and though he is avoiding answering your (and their) questions, he is still informing people. He's clearing things up in a way none of us ever could. He was there. Of course he's biased, but you would be too, were you in his shoes. If Shirley was your mother and you'd been raised like Zach, you'd be different, and if you'd managed to escape like he did, you probably wouldn't be as willing to publicize yourself as he is.

He's right to forgive them. Read what he's saying. Really read it.

I am so completely satisfied with this answer.

It is our lot. Some animals can fly, some breathe underwater. We ruin things.