RE: Have You Guys...
July 22, 2018 at 12:23 pm
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2018 at 12:25 pm by The Industrial Atheist.)
My mom encouraged me to participate in religion at a young age, but for the most part I wasn't forced. I went to a Catholic school from grades 4-8. The other boys were some cruel, nasty, little bastards. I pretty much was a Catholic back then, even though I had limited knowledge of Catholic doctrine. Eventually my mom married stepdad number 2, who was Pentecostal. I went to a Pentecostal church for about 20 years.
I had friends there from time to time, but most others my age there never really accepted me or wanted to be around me outside of Church. I think it was because they knew I had to be getting government help and/or that I didn't work. Evangelicals have the rep for being right wing, but Pentecostals are probably worse.
Probably about 3-4 years ago I started to question. It was mainly things like, God gave us these rules. we can't follow some of them, none of us do, we say we do. It's immoral to inflict guilt on us this way. God can't be moral. 2 years ago I gave that crap up. Maybe some day I'll find a (RL)place I'm accepted. It sure as hell wasn't there, as much as I wanted it to be.
I had friends there from time to time, but most others my age there never really accepted me or wanted to be around me outside of Church. I think it was because they knew I had to be getting government help and/or that I didn't work. Evangelicals have the rep for being right wing, but Pentecostals are probably worse.
Probably about 3-4 years ago I started to question. It was mainly things like, God gave us these rules. we can't follow some of them, none of us do, we say we do. It's immoral to inflict guilt on us this way. God can't be moral. 2 years ago I gave that crap up. Maybe some day I'll find a (RL)place I'm accepted. It sure as hell wasn't there, as much as I wanted it to be.
