Originally Posted by awareness

Many of the kids I knew of that grew up in the local church were seriously messed up by it, and became rebellious when older.

I remember in Miami one daughter gave me a copy of a paper she did in high school, on how King David was gay, because he loved Jonathan more than women. It blew my mind.

All her siblings, sisters, were screwed up. Then I found out it wasn't necessarily the church life that screwed them up. Her father, it turned out, a otherwise burning brother in the LC, was sexually abusing his daughters. That blew my mind too. I really liked him.

Turns out, in this case, Christ and the church failed to be the answer for such failings.

Proving that, the local church is not all that. Much of it, as it turns out, is just as illusionary as a puffball.