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I can imagine, Of course most religious views are I believe self imprinted.
I bet you saw red.😒😒😒😒😒😒😒
posted by
C_C_T
on October 7, 2023 at 7:52 AM
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What a horrid experience you'd told us about! I'm sorry you went through that and your family as well. Awful.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on October 5, 2023 at 5:17 PM
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My friend,
As a Christian, I think the people you describe here give "Christians" a bad name. For that, I'm sorry. People are fallible. People are imperfect. I've been a Christian a long time. I do find it offensive when a random person comes up to me wanting to pray for me to be, "healed" from having CP.
posted by
Amanda__
on October 5, 2023 at 2:09 PM
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I loved my Grandmother as well. She never lectured me though secretly the family called her Queen Victoria. She wasn't like that with me, not at all.She was the one person who gave me some ideas about sex; no one else ever did. I loathe people who sit in Church but have no love inside their hearts. There are so many and 'tis one of the reasons i don't belong in a Church. I have my strong faith but it doesn't sot in a pew.
posted by
Kabu
on October 5, 2023 at 12:44 PM
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Good Afternoon
Pat, this reminds me of something that happened to me when I was 8. My mother decided she was going to become a Catholic. We were methodists. She insisted that I take classes for what they called Chatecism. I went to the first class after school and I sat down in what was a classroom with other children my age. The Nun asked me to say a prayer. That would have been fine but I didn't know the prayer. She thought I was lying and made me stand in an old clock room until the class was over. I can remember going home and telling my mother I was never going back. My mother told me I was going back but I never did. I can remember telling my mother I would rather be killed than go back there. I will never forget this. It was so ridiculous to put a child through this in the name of religion.
posted by
Goldiec
on October 5, 2023 at 11:40 AM
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Re: Pat_B
I never did like the type of church women that you describe here....especially the nosy ones. I learned from Ann Landers' newspaper column to answer them when asked, "Why did you want to know?" I got all kinds of answers to that question:
"So I can pray for her"
"I need to know"
"It's my duty to keep track of what is going on"
It was fun to watch them squirm.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 5, 2023 at 10:09 AM
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Good morning
Good women can either make or break the spirits of the young people who look up to them. Sister Lela sounds like she was a real judgemental monster with the values of a shoe stuck in the mud with a hundred-dollar bill sticking out from the yuck. Even so, Lela would have still taken the bill all the while complaining about the filth. On the other hand, your grandma Lucy was the dream grandmother that we all wished we had.
posted by
Sherri_G
on October 5, 2023 at 8:35 AM
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