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Originally Posted by Ohio
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Okay, have at it.
Okay, I relent. Upon thinking about it, I'm resentful of being deceived by the SBC. And I'm resentful I was deceived by the Local Church. So by such association, I'm resentful of my evangelical associations. I guess it reminds me of my hateful mother.
I loved my mom - R.I.P. - but she sure was hateful toward anyone and everyone that wasn't SBC. She was loving toward those in her church, but even that wouldn't last. Cuz the church would get into a fight, over some doctrinal differences, then split down the middle, and folks she purported to love, suddenly she became condemnatory toward.
To be honest, even as a kid, that didn't seem to have the same shine as : "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world." My mom was a stanch Southern Baptist, and self professed proud fundamentalist, if you can picture that?
But she didn't make it very becoming and attractive, with her hatefulness. So professing to be an evangelical doesn't impress me much. (Sorta like Jerry Falwell Jr., today ; no surprise there, to me ... I expected it ... sooner or later -- like Watchman Nee -- don't get to know your heroes, if you want to keep them).
Anyway, given that I don't need all that, the Baptist church, the local church, and evangelicalism, to relate with God, by bunching all them together I guess I do resent them.
No hard feelings. I guess I'm only dislike my mom, in that, I dislike the whole kit and caboodle. I guess to one degree or other, I've become quite the misanthrope. It's dangerous out there. It's full of animals. Including me.