Here I go again...........
First of all, I grew up in a UPC church/home. My parents had already been saved many years. That being said ....I did NOT experience these oddities.
We played board games and were not told to remove the dice. We had OLD Maid cards, Go Fish etc. My mother didn't want us to use actual playing cards. I don't remember the details-- but she said the King,Queen etc represented things that were bad.
Went ice skating daily after school and changed into slacks to do so. Remember===in the 50's ALL girls wore dresses to school.
My dad trimmed bangs for my sister and I.
My mother lived in Chicago from 1937 to 1946. First of all for the most part--no UPC
; she attended oneness Apostolic churches as well as AOG. She didn't drive and probably would not have been able to afford a car anyway. She took the streetcar to church. She was always faithful.
She told us that she had to walk part of the way after her streetcar stop and would cross to other side of street so she didn't walk past an amusement park (since those were wrong).
She said they preached against radio programs also.
When she first lived in ---- after marrying my father she commented that the ladies wore "beads", (her term) and eventually she bought some also.
She said it was preached against in Chicago; and many time the churches she attended were AOG! Since Chicago was a large city
- many times location was main factor in going to church.
My parents were not rebels and the church was their life. If it was wrong they would not have done it.
(Maybe I should add that my parents were not blind followers and possessed lots of "commonsense"
. )
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