>Your post reminds me of my favorite book, "What's So Amazing About Grace." The very beginning tells the story of a prostitute who was talking to "a friend [of the author's] who works with the down-and-out in Chicago." Read the first page of the book on the link below (Page 4 after the contents etcetera). I know you'll like it. It surmises very quickly a major part of the problem.
>http://www.zondervan.com/media/samples/pdf/0310245656_samptxt.pdf
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>The rest of the book comes back to this story constantly. I highly recommend anyone reading this post, and hopefully the excerpt link above, that they then of course read the entire book. The book has been out a while now, but it is a bestseller, so all the bigger bookstores have it.
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>If you are still not sure you want to read the entire book, find it in a store and start to read the chapter "Lovesick Father"
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>Since this book came out, I have loved grace more than I ever thought I could.

I'm not really interested in doing my own research - I could spend a few centuries digging through paperwork of each major religion, which is exactly the reason why I posted the question here, to get opinions.