It seemed there were no religious groups on campus that identified with the UCC, and I felt that by starting this group I could change that.

The Student Christian Fellowship is just one more religiously affiliated option for students who want to feel accepted on a UCC campus. Many people don't know it, but we are an open and affirming group.

I want this group to help inform students of the political arena. And it will be biased because we are obviously a Democrat based group.

A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.

There is a basic terrorist germ in fundamentalism – a germ that is purely genocidal. This germ drives the psyche of mentally unstable individuals in the path of chaos, which actually is presented to them by the fundamentalists as the path of God.

As they perform this ritual, I almost have to turn away, thinking again what a boomeranging, out-of-body experience it is to watch a religious childhood from the outside, when before I was in the very marrow of it.