August 2006 Weddings
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***soprano***
I have no clue if you are still on, but I wondered if you saw my post about being "witnessed." I posted in response to your post in the "E08 train wreck" thread a couple days ago. Reading about your experience was interesting because it was so similar to mine.
ETA: it was interesting also because I've not encountered anyone else who has shared a story such as this.
Re: ***soprano***
Yeah, mine was a Baptist experience as well, as was soprano's. My step-father was raised a Southern Baptist and he left the church because, as he put it, he found SoBas to be "batshit crazy." The fact that his church spent a great deal of time bashing other religions didn't help.
Ooo, the SoBas hate the Catholics most of all! The service I was forced to attend after being "witnessed" was all about idolatry-bashing. You people aren't real Christians, you know.
I got this from my grandmother when I was younger. Pretty scary stuff when you are so young. I'm sorry you had to deal with that.
Hey! Thanks for sharing your story -- I totally missed it!
It definitely was an awful experience, but unfortunately in the heart of Southern Baptist country, I don't think my experience was all that unusual. The Baptists in my high school also used to tell Catholics they were going to hell, and handed out comic strips depicting all non-baptists going to hell. It's such an awful message of hate and exclusion. I don't think that's what Jesus would have wanted ;-)
The "fire and brimstone" thing has never been for me... especially when there are so many obvious holes you can poke in their logic
This all makes me so thankful that I didn't experience southern religion until I was almost done with high school. Someone did try to trick me into going up for an alter call. I looked at her like she was insane and sat right where I was. I can't see myself doing that when younger.
Then again, I do remember being 8 and hiding under the table in sunday school. I can't remember what the cause was, but I remember I was really angry at the teachers and called them all liars. So, yeah, maybe I've always been that way.
I think we need to go around with a movement to unsave people who were unintentionally saved.
I want a shirt that says "I survived middle school in Southern GA."
Oh, how many times was I told I was going to hell? Did you know that if you don't want to take a pitchfork to WDW on their Gay Day, that you're going to hell? God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. I spent like 5 months being called all the fun lesbian slurs in the book. It makes me feel even sorrier for real lesbians who might go through that crap.
I never got falsely saved, thankfully.
I think I've done enough sinning and taking the Lord's name in vain since my witnessing to undo any good that was done.
Well, hell, you just got moved into the "unsaved" column! You'd better watch out for people knocking on your door... ;-)
Seriously, my husband witnessed a bizarre situation this weekend. Two mormons came to our building (on their mission) and were talking to a lapsed mormon through the call box! They kept asking why he'd left the church, and couldn't they just come up and talk to him? He said an unequivocal "NO"