Hypocrisy=religion

When have I faced hypocrisy? The word hypocrisy brings back floods of memories from my childhood back to mind in an instant. I grew up in a southern Baptist home and my father was a Baptist preacher in my early teens. I was force fed ideals, thoughts and morals that were never mine or I never even fully understood. I grew up being told that if you don’t act a certain way, believe a certain way, and present yourself in a specific manner then hell would be your home. I never understood these things and when asked was scolded or punished in some way for questioning what I was just supposed to take on faith. The idea of questions never sat well with my father and after growing up I have realized that they don’t sit well or have any real place in the Christian religion. I remember one specific instance where I asked my father about evolution. Although I meant the idea that things must adapt to survive he took the question as me entertaining the thoughts of Charles Darwin. I was severely punished and my question was never really answered, much to my confusion. Blind faith was never something I could just accept. I knew even as a boy that there has to be a logical explanation for everything that happens no matter the context or background of the event. Similar instances occurred frequently in my child hood, unanswered questions, and punishment with out explanation. I never grasped these things until I grew up and moved out away from then to form my own ideas and beliefs. The preachers at the churches we went to were just as bad. They encouraged questions but when they were asked failed to give a reasonable answer and always redirected me back to my father for yet another whipping. Now that I have grown and entertained many ideas from different cultures and faiths I have still found hypocrisy in most all of them. So I have decided that I refuse to be that way with my own children that I want them to respectfully question authorities and beliefs. I want them to be there own people and form their own ideas free from fear of persecution because of them. So I completely believe that religion of any form hold the most hypocrisy of any single thing is this world.