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Originally Posted by Praxeas
You didn't just ask a question, if you even asked one, you made and have made statements. Yes dude, we get it. You are glad you left the UPC. Hello? You sound like a broken record  |
It's a common practice in this forum. UPC bashing is a sport here...
It's hard for me to believe that having parents that loved you enough to raise you, put a roof over your head, and bring you to church (really ANY church, but ESPECIALLY a church where they teach the TRUTH about salvation) and wanting you to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.... was
really THAT HORRIFIC. Seriously, I wake up every morning wishing that I would have been raised in the truth, with two parents in the truth to train and direct me and protect me from some of the things I was exposed to as a child. I THANK GOD the worst things my children MAY ever have to go through is maybe somebody yelling in their ear telling them to get the Holy Ghost (not that I condone shaking them or using violence but I've never personally seen that and I'm not raising them UPC, we're PAW and do things a tad bit differently). I saw three dead bodies (on street corners) by the age of 10. I'd trade going to youth retreats for going home to home from age 8 to age 16 any day.
I'm definitely happy with the fact that I'll be raising them in the truth, and that I'll be providing a home for them where they won't have to go through what I've gone through. I don't think raising my children in a Pentecostal church makes me any worse of a parent.
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