Jesus Christ

The hurt is the same as believing an entire race is inferior.  Or believing that your wife cheated on you (when she didn't).  Or maybe believing that you should hand your life savings over to an investment broker promising 5,000% returns.  Ineptitude and ignorance are what you have to gain.  What you have to lose is, at the very least, rationality.  Kind of like how some children grow out of having imaginary friends instead of perpetuating them into their adulthood. 

It is amazing to me that people are treated as rational adults when they still have imaginary all knowing and all powerful friends.  They were formerly used to explain things we, as humans, couldn't explain.  Then, through the advancements of technology, we could explain the previously unexplainable and nobody even thought to completely abolish the garbage that has spewed forth from the church for centuries.  In fact, they still argue the absurdities!!!! Furthermore, if you didn't believe the garbage being spewed forth and force-fed to you, you were labeled a heretic and shunned from society.   

Organized religion (not JUST christianity) is the most divisive and harmful things to have ever plagued the human race.  It creates fictitious and fabricated lines devised by manipulative men claiming to speak to a 'higher' power.  It is nothing more, nothing less.  If you want the proverbial wool pulled over your face, be my guest.  Just know that in placing your beliefs and values in an imaginary person and an archaic and obsolete book, you've lost most of your credibility to anyone with critical thinking skills and an active capacity for proof.  We should be thankful that 'god' wasn't allowed into the court system where all you needed was faith that someone had done something wrong (Salem Witch 'Trials') so that you could burn them alive.