Reply #86: Yes, I had a similar experience. Just found a lot of the church teachings weren't meshing with my

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life experience. My family is multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi-religious, Christian doctrine and dogma was just too exclusive to me, it's history was based too much on domination and control. I left the church for a very long time, but did not turn away from the sense of a shared connectiveness, spirituality, higher power, higher calling, the teachings of Jesus on love for self and others.