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I've long been a little envious of people like you, who saw through the silliness of religion even as kids. I was just too lazy or timid or dumb to begin doubting until near-adulthood. Good on you!

(Never heard of the Arch Books; the JWs didn't encourage the reading of any publications but their own. Thanks to your comment and Google, I now know a wee bit about them. Hmm, God's Fire for Elijah might be good; that was one of the few Bible stories I liked. It's gruesome and hideous, but offers some nice literal toilet humor. And while I don't see it among the offerings, there must be an Arch book about the three guys who were tossed into the furnace, another fine potboiler tale to curl a kid's clip-on Sunday necktie. Alas, despite a couple of Old Testament page-turners, I still had to turn to proper Norse or Greek mythology for the good stuff, like real hero-on-monster action.)