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In reply to the discussion: Any Ex-vangelicals? [View all]I_UndergroundPanther
(12,462 posts)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.