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I was raised as a Jew. My step-father was Hindu. My best friend is Catholic; when we were growing up I fairly often attended Mass with her (which I enjoyed more than she did). As an adult I studied Buddhism at a Zen monastery for some years, and still practice some aspects of Buddhism. My husband is Methodist.
So, plenty of religious and spiritual influence.
I don't believe that God would punish anyone anymore than I would punish someone I love. That said, I fear that God or just the general "universal energy" does punish me, because I have no other way to explain many things in my life that have gone terribly wrong (that I could not have made better at the time).
So I have a lot of conflict about the whole subject. Mostly, since it's a tremendous trigger for me, I try not to focus on it. It remains unresolved.
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