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I_UndergroundPanther

(12,462 posts)
21. The church hypocrisy.
Sat May 22, 2021, 08:47 PM
May 2021

They talked shit about people all the time.

In prayer groups they prayed for people to suffer until they stopped doing what the church didn't like aka" come to Jesus"including people that were not christian.

The grifting ,one preacher told me his salary was 45,000 a year. But he lived in a huge three story house on 25 acres,he had a in ground pool. He had ten kids and more on the way. Three balconies,had tractor trailer trucks one was like a big food truck and the other was for performances when he'd go out trying to convert people
They really did not care what the bible said.

So many times my ex and I argued the points with biblical verse and Every time they were reduced to silence because they knew we were right.

They think mental illness is demonic possession. They tried to throw my alters out of my body,I have dissociative Identity disorder because growing up my life was ruined by my tyrant father and pedophiles.

For 1 instance of the bullshit ,a preacher told me animals have no souls and won't be in heaven..that pissed me off. I replied no animals in heaven how is the lion going to lay down with the lamb if there is no animals in heaven? He shut up.

All the crazy cell church bullshit. After services at the church we were given a slip of paper. Only select people got the paper.

It was for a church meeting at someone's house. It was always a different house we went to.

These were basically strategy groups like how to force the bible in school.
How to undermine other religions.

How to push theocracy in America.

How to make gay and transgender people second class citizens

Control certain politicians.


Their obsession with republicans was gross. Even though I was evangelistic I refused to vote republican or justify republican sick ass evil beliefs. I refused to go along with the political pressure. I also refused to pressure strangers to convert.
I remembered how it felt when I was not christian to be badgered by evangelist assholes.

Jay Sekulow was a lawyer of the church I was in. He was not on TV at that time.

He told me if I got busted working for god and I ran afoul of the law he would make sure I faced no consequences.

They gave people in meetings when they were in the church about a month the mmpi a personality test psychiatrists use that isn't usually available to lay people.

I have taken that test several times in psych hospitals and I recognized the questions that's how I knew what that test was.

It creeped me out they were trying to exploit people's psychology.

I asked the group leader why they were giving people a professional grade personality test that psychiatrists use to determine what personality types or disorders people have.

Why are you giving people this test,trying to get into people's heads even though you are no psychiatrist?

Why do you want that information? Since I said that out loud the group leader backpedaled and lied.

I refused to take the test,my ex refused and several in the group refused to take it. Leader got mad and shut down the meeting.

After awhile in the church I was encouraged by the preacher to read the bible cover to cover after reading the bible cover to cover I couldn't believe in the christian god anymore. The christian god has the morality of a sociopath or abusive parent. The bible itself was horrible. It had lower standards of ethics than I did.

Can't love a god that can't grasp basic ethical wisdom or compassion.

Around the time I was leaving the church I got curious.
I researched different leaders in the assemblies of god on my own. Certain people I looked up online and sought out other sources too to find out more.

I found direct links the assemblies of
god leaders,founders and clergy were working with scientology and Moonies.
It was freaking ugly and scary.

I exposed all I had found in research on a top 10 Christian site in the 2000's called seek god.

This was close to the time we left.
When we left the church.

Soon after an unmarked van with no license plate zoomed twords us on a highway outside DC,they chased us and tried to cause us to wreck they pushed us into a construction site. Luckily my ex's driving kicked ass. They were really out to kill us. Then suddenly they pulled into an off ramp and disappeared.

Eric Prince was involved in assemblies of god.


The assemblies of god is involved in the national prayer breakfast and they are involved in the government and the republican party directly.

Assemblies of god were the only group allowed to serve meals after 9/11 at the Pentagon. They have cia members and connections that would curl your hair.

They are a well connected dangerous grifting power hungry and manipulating cult and the christian god they worship is still a fucking monster.

And the church is a fucking monstrous cult.

Any Ex-vangelicals? [View all] Hippo_The_Pointer May 2021 OP
I am an ex evangel I_UndergroundPanther May 2021 #1
What were the seeds? Hippo_The_Pointer May 2021 #2
The church hypocrisy. I_UndergroundPanther May 2021 #21
Fascinating Panther! leftieNanner May 2021 #25
Amazing post... orwell May 2021 #42
I was raised Southern Baptist. Haggard Celine May 2021 #3
Southern Baptist..drink with the preacher on Saturday and eat fried chicken on Sunday Lochloosa May 2021 #7
Was raised Mormon FreeState May 2021 #4
There's a podcast called "Exvangelical" which I've heard good things about, but not listened to RockRaven May 2021 #5
I went to Abilene Christian university JT45242 May 2021 #6
My wife is an ex-vangelical. Aristus May 2021 #8
Drip, drip, drip Hippo_The_Pointer May 2021 #20
Well, if anyone will tell you I'm a drip, it's Mrs. Aristus. Aristus May 2021 #23
What a great story, Aristus! cilla4progress May 2021 #30
What a great story of her path, and of yours together. True moonscape May 2021 #41
Special Thanks for Telling Us Your Story. I appreciate it greatly..Thanks Again.. Stuart G May 2021 #55
Dan Barker, Co-President of the Freedom From Religion Foundation no_hypocrisy May 2021 #9
I was raised in the Church of God slightlv May 2021 #10
Wow, aweseome story, slightlv! cilla4progress May 2021 #32
I spent a few years in the Southern Baptist church.. luvs2sing May 2021 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author hamsterjill May 2021 #45
That's the biggest part of evangelism that's bothersome. Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #53
One of my nieces. Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #12
What It's Like to Leave the Evangelical Community - VICE Celerity May 2021 #13
I recently watched a TV series called "Pray, Obey, Kill". Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #14
Stephen Roberts . . . . hatrack May 2021 #57
yep, a bit of a paraphrase of him, I normally post a pic of the quote but I was outside and busy Celerity May 2021 #58
I don't go to any building. pwb May 2021 #15
Matthew 18:20 Hippo_The_Pointer May 2021 #18
Was told I must have a lot of sin in my life after my husband died. cpamomfromtexas May 2021 #16
Keep writing - stay strong! Hippo_The_Pointer May 2021 #17
Thank you. I am. cpamomfromtexas May 2021 #44
Raised (brainwashed) Catholic. Red Raider 85 May 2021 #19
Me too - accidentally ate some meat on a Friday back in the day when all Fridays rurallib May 2021 #22
Did you mean all Fridays during Lent or every single Friday? Polybius May 2021 #24
every Friday - want to say that changed in the mid 60s rurallib May 2021 #26
Public school cafeterias used to serve fish sticks or cheese... 3catwoman3 May 2021 #36
Same at my schools in the 80s n/t Metatron May 2021 #48
I left Roman Catholicism for the ECC HariSeldon May 2021 #27
What is ETMR3? Bluesaph May 2021 #62
English Translation of the Missal Romanum, version 3 HariSeldon May 2021 #63
My brother asked me one night if i was a Christian. Delmette2.0 May 2021 #31
Born and raised Southern Baptist. Now very much ex. paleotn May 2021 #28
Only 47% of Americans now ID themselves with any religion PortTack May 2021 #29
Source, please? I'd like to read how that was determined. nt. Mariana May 2021 #47
Fewer Than Half Of U.S. Adults Belong To A Religious Congregation, New Poll Shows (NPR) Metatron May 2021 #49
Church membership is not the same as religious affiliation. Mariana May 2021 #50
I don't disagree with you Metatron May 2021 #52
I was involved in that type of church from 17 Tree Lady May 2021 #33
I went to every different faith that I could when I was young. PurgedVoter May 2021 #34
+1. Sounds like we walk/have walked similar paths. yonder May 2021 #39
I would help, if I could. BobTheSubgenius May 2021 #35
Good post. I want to thank everyone for their personal accounts. yonder May 2021 #37
Present. herding cats May 2021 #38
When it's in your head as a child.... Tiger8 May 2021 #40
That would be me susanr516 May 2021 #43
Raised Southern Baptist... myccrider May 2021 #46
Never liked church. GoodRaisin May 2021 #51
How about Jehovah's Witness? hunter May 2021 #54
Thanks Hippo_The_Pointer May 2021 #56
This thread has been amazing and insightful to read. Thank you everyone. Marrah_Goodman May 2021 #59
Grew up Southern Baptist. In the South. GulfCoast66 May 2021 #60
I am a recovering Southern Baptist misanthrope May 2021 #61
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