Yours must have been more progressive. Mine just looked down upon the drinkers, the apologists, the cultists, the polygamists, and the nonbelievers. Freewill Baptist, love thy neighbor my ass… the ONE thing I’ll give them is they don’t pay the pastor and the money is spent for the community or the repairs of the church.
I’m speaking for the teeny church I grew up in. Still left with some trauma, but it was more the emotional, gaslighting mind of abuse. Many have experienced much much worse (People at my childhood chirch were blinded by faith, had good intentions but oblivious to their harms)
Growing up in the church, Mormons were views as just as Christian as Muslims, Jews and atheists, while Jehovah witness were extremist party poopers.
Yours must have been more progressive. Mine just looked down upon the drinkers, the apologists, the cultists, the polygamists, and the nonbelievers. Freewill Baptist, love thy neighbor my ass… the ONE thing I’ll give them is they don’t pay the pastor and the money is spent for the community or the repairs of the church.
really?
I’m speaking for the teeny church I grew up in. Still left with some trauma, but it was more the emotional, gaslighting mind of abuse. Many have experienced much much worse (People at my childhood chirch were blinded by faith, had good intentions but oblivious to their harms)