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People Are Revealing Why They'll Never Go To Church Again, And I'm Curious About Who Feels The Same
[buzzfeed.com]
Some of these are pretty funny - like the bit about "those thieves"! Shortly after moving to this town, our son (about 7 at the time) said the neighbors invited him to attend services with them. He came home a couple hours later, excitedly talking about how they "deaded Jesus" and hasn't been back since

chalupacabre 8 Apr 15
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I got a kick out of the first story - she's having a panic attack and the church ladies tell her it's Jesus flowing through her.

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You only have so much time on this earth and so much money.
Why waste your limited time and limited money on complete bullshit?

BD66 Level 8 Apr 16, 2021

Silly sheople

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How about. All of the above.

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My parents weren't religious. However, I was a pain in the ass and was subsequently physically punished. It didn't really work. I just got used to the pain.
For those taking notes: It's not okay to hit someone you love barring the self-defense possibility.

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Interesting comments. One I agree with: "it’s a physiological thing." Interesting the comment, It's a pedo thing LOL. I guess it OK to be a 'pedo' but just don't eat babies. That what us libtards do. These people are really, really sicko.

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I have zero interest in going to any church of any kind for the sole purpose of attending the service with the possible exception for the existence of a super animated southern baptist church as stereotyped in film and television one time for shits or a Pentecostal church on Halloween to scare the bejesus out of myself and a friend with all the speaking in tongues. But there are other circumstances I could imagine that would get me to go a time or two. That said, no such circumstance has occurred since I stopped going in the 90s.

I wouldn't mind attending a snake handling service if I knew the snakes weren't previously milked and I could be witness to some idiots being removed from the gene pool.

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Why allow a child to be indoctrinated...

and by someone other than the parents.

I would prefer that our son know what's in the world, good and bad, and make an informed decision for himself when he's ready. A demystified thing loses a lot of power.

@chalupacabre when older and able to form objective evaluations, yes. But 7 isn’t it

@Canndue he was debriefed when he got home and we knew the people he went with. I wasn't much older when I attended a JW service without either of my parents, and look at where I'm posting that. πŸ˜„

@chalupacabre I suppose, whatever works for you.

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Because young people don't have the decades of conditioning these cults give out...I have the sense that more of us left at an early age than, say, in middle age.

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