Can I be candid?

[aron]

Originally Posted by awareness

Most, but not everybody, remains Christian after leaving the LC. It's hard to get it out of your system, and many don't want to. I've noticed that people go thru kind of stages after leaving, and the longer one is out, and the stages they go thru, frees them more and more from the LC Kool-Aid they've been drinking for so long. Seems that Kool-Aid becomes integrated down to the cellular level, and is hard to get rid of. .

The LSM/lc programme is immersive and all-encompassing. For years after I left them physically, and met with other Christians, I'd sit in a meeting and I'd think, "Hmpf - that's not God's economy".

My own path led me, eventually, through a very wonderful 'functionally agnostic' period where I forgot all about God, learned to think again, and learned to take responsibility for my own emotional well-being instead of being co-dependent on some manipulative system.

So I have a lot of tolerance today for "alternative viewpoints". And as I tolerate and respect others, lo and behold others begin to show me tolerance and respect, too! The old "give and it will be given unto you" rubric really works. Fancy that.

And I no longer need the "right church" or artfully constructed theological matrix to make me whole. That was never God's plan for me.