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<blockquote data-quote="Darmark7" data-source="post: 5560759" data-attributes="member: 83127">As an adult I could choose to walk away. As a child I couldn’t but there are a lot of things a child has to do because of their parents. Luckily even as a child I had questions and wondered why out of all the religions how did I get lucky enough to fall into parents that was lucky enough to pick the right religion that we was all going to enjoy paradise while other kids that wasn’t so lucky was born to parents that wasn’t so lucky and because of it they would suffer the worst imaginable consequences for eternity. On top of that I never liked church it seemed as a punishment to go. Even as a child I didn’t like Easter (never thought how strange that was till later) When I went into a Christ centered store it felt strange. Felt like money changers in the temple making money off of Christ. The people in the store would be googling and ga ga over the merchandise and there was nothing in there I would want. I would just be in there because I was with someone else and was happy to leave. Looking back on these things I just never fell for any part of it. As I look back on my life the worst times in my life was when my wife and I went through drug addiction and then after we got cleaned up people convinced us we needed to go back to church. Those next 20 years was some of the worst years. I only stayed 20 years because my wife was so brainwashed. Luckily small things I would say to her made her question and then as she started to see how she was treated for not falling in line she finally woke up and we left. It was like leaving a cult. All those loving people all of a sudden said the devil got ahold of us and all the “friends” left us. &nbsp;Anyway I have been on both side and it would take a visit from God himself to get me to go back.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Darmark7, post: 5560759, member: 83127"] As an adult I could choose to walk away. As a child I couldn’t but there are a lot of things a child has to do because of their parents. Luckily even as a child I had questions and wondered why out of all the religions how did I get lucky enough to fall into parents that was lucky enough to pick the right religion that we was all going to enjoy paradise while other kids that wasn’t so lucky was born to parents that wasn’t so lucky and because of it they would suffer the worst imaginable consequences for eternity. On top of that I never liked church it seemed as a punishment to go. Even as a child I didn’t like Easter (never thought how strange that was till later) When I went into a Christ centered store it felt strange. Felt like money changers in the temple making money off of Christ. The people in the store would be googling and ga ga over the merchandise and there was nothing in there I would want. I would just be in there because I was with someone else and was happy to leave. Looking back on these things I just never fell for any part of it. As I look back on my life the worst times in my life was when my wife and I went through drug addiction and then after we got cleaned up people convinced us we needed to go back to church. Those next 20 years was some of the worst years. I only stayed 20 years because my wife was so brainwashed. Luckily small things I would say to her made her question and then as she started to see how she was treated for not falling in line she finally woke up and we left. It was like leaving a cult. All those loving people all of a sudden said the devil got ahold of us and all the “friends” left us. Anyway I have been on both side and it would take a visit from God himself to get me to go back. [/QUOTE]

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