Ellen

Disclaimer: I have nothing against religion unless it harms other people. This is Ellen. Close friends call her Elly. She is 20. She was born to parents who were extremely Christian. She used to have the same beliefs. She also used to have a younger brother. His name was James. She loved James. She tried to be the best sister to him that she could be. Ellen was very close to James. Then James got sick. He could have gotten better if Ellen’s parents had just taken him to a hospital, but they didn’t. They didn’t trust medicine. Instead, they just prayed that James would get better. He did not. He died. Ellen’s parents told her that there was nothing they could do. This is when Ellen started to question her beliefs. Her parents, seeing this, tried to push their extreme beliefs on her more than they did before. Ellen ended up running away from her parents. Ellen now lives in an apartment with her roommate, Nova. Nova is a biology student at a university. Nova was also born in a religious family, but her family’s beliefs are less extreme than Ellen’s parents’. Nova is also atheist.