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36. I sort of had a strange combo in my family.

Thu Apr 10, 2014, 10:31 AM

Apr 2014

My dad was (is) a strict Presbyterian of the old-style and my mother was a "holy-roller."

So, I was raised with Calvinist doctrine (the total depravity of man - you are intrinsically a bad person) from my dad's tradition, and all the Rapture, Tribulation, speaking in tongues stuff on my mom's.

It makes for a scary jambalaya, let me tell you.....

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