(December 13, 2017 at 7:17 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(December 13, 2017 at 7:07 pm)Industrial Lad Wrote: I went to a Pentacostal Church for a long time.
Sorry about that, dude. You seem like a pretty perceptive and complex guy, and Pentecostals seem to ignore these awesome qualities in people. In fact, they seem reflexively opposed to anything that the average hillbilly can't immediately apprehend. In some ways, I'm thankful for my Catholic roots. As misguided as Catholics may be, at least they don't endorse outright ignorance.
Thanks vulcan. Yeah I wasn't popular there. Strangely when I was in my teens that Church seemed to have a lock on people in my age group. I guess the rural north isn't always so different from the rural south.
What really bothered me was how the noise got sometimes. Loud shouts of ecstasy, speaking in tongues, loud music. These types of things can be very disorienting for someone suffering with schizo affective disorder.
I guess I stayed as long as I did because i believed the Jesus B.S. and sometimes believed the charismatic B.S. even though I never spoke in tongues or got loud, except for singing (the actual words of songs, not random shit).
At different other times I tried a ND church and a Methodist church. I was pretty much an Atheist when I went to the Methodist church. Having come out of what I think was mixed state, I still had an intense desire to socialize and I was willing to put up with the Jesus stuff for a few weeks to do that. They seemed a bit less backwards but I couldn't stand hearing about how god is so great well you know, all the goofy stuff that comes with church.
