Changing a bad religion is much like going to the dentist to get a bad tooth pulled. It hurts for a while, but once the tooth is out, it stops hurting after it heals. Pulling a bad religion is the same thing--it can hurt until it heals, but you are better off without it.
Once the bad religion is out, you can start doing other things. Do you like the Christmas decorations? Go ahead and buy them with the money you had been wasting on Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund donations, suit dry cleanings, field circus supplies, and gas to and from field circus and boasting sessions. One suit dry cleaning will buy you one strand of quality LED Christmas lights. You might budget what you were going to waste at the Grand Boasting Session for your Christmas tree--an artificial tree will last a good many years. Instead of wasting gas to do field circus, put the gas money into ornaments and/or presents. What were you going to donate to the Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund or to your Kingdumb Hell? Putting this money instead into presents, cards, and/or ornaments is better.
Now is also the time to research your other options for religions. I recommend staying unaffiliated while you do this, because you need to make sure your new religion is going to address your issues. Doing research on them is not the same as sympathizing or joining--you can and should research as many of them as possible before deciding on any of them. Research other Christian denominations, even the advanced stages. Research the Jewish and Muslim religions in depth, as well as the pagan and Eastern religions and Satanism. Once you get a feel for what's out there, you and you alone can decide whether you wish to commit to any of them, and when. Or, you can choose to remain unaffiliated forever. Without the bias from an organization dictating what is the truth.
