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In reply to the discussion: Any Ex-vangelicals? [View all]GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Church Sunday Morning, Sunday Night and Wednesday night. Dad was a Deacon. Granted this was in the 70s and early 80s before southern Baptist went all Moral Majority.
Never went to church after I graduated high school except for weddings or funerals.
My dad, who had a doctorate encouraged me to study science. I actually had a row with a Sunday School teacher my senior year. He was telling us the standard Baptist line that when Christ and the apostles were drinking wine it had very little alcohol and was really grape juice. I explained to him that grape juice back then, with no pasteurization and refrigeration would quickly become high alcohol wine. Science, you know. Dude actually talked to my dad about being disrespectful! My dad did not punish me. Just asked if I would be respectful in the future. Told him Ill call any lies, as I was taught! I was done with Sunday School. And soon Church.
I consider myself a Deist in the Jefferson mode. There may be a god, but natural science rules our world.