Shoq16h ago
💯 And to prove your point, last Sunday a friend went to a local church and videoed a local preacher aggressively defending Trump and Ice.”We must accept that God’s work can seem brutal at times, but there’s always a plan.”
Her lawyer says she cannot release it. I agreed, but somehow we have to start making this story better known. They are using religious charlatanism from the pulpit to savage their own congregants and country. We have to fight back against these pious …
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I've been Episcopalian my whole life, but I'm happy to worship at other people's churches when I'm invited. Once I had a friend staying with me who was raised Baptist, and one Sunday we went to a nearby Baptist church. It turned out to be very fundamentalist, unlike what he was raised with. The sermon wasn't too bad but at the end the preacher started roaring about hell and I could just feel the terror of the people around me. And I thought, "My God, if I'd been raised like this...
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Show threadScary Austin7h ago
@shoq ...I'd be absolutely terrified." Now I probably would have left as an adult if I'd been raised in churches like that-- I've rejected plenty of stuff from my red state upbringing. But it was eye opening how much these high control churches use fear as a weapon, totally misrepresenting God's grace. Not making excuses for people-- for everybody who stays there's someone else who sat in the same pews and left. But my Lord, what an environment of fear.
Show threadScary Austin6h ago
@shoq (Heh, btw we didn't go back there. My friend asked to start going with my to Episcopalian churches and really enjoyed it.)