Sorry if i ramble...i was raised Babtist in a small town, i remember going to church every Sunday with my grandmother, i also remember all the scary things they taught us...after every sermon they would do the alter call...i remember wanting to go up there but all i could do is stand there and cry and for the longest time i always would wonder why...even now i don't think i have the answer but i do believe its because of all the teachings that i sat through, no matter what you did or how you lived, you would always sin, you were never good enough...looking back my question is this...Why in the world would you do that to a child? Is that not child abuse?... end of ramble...
Of course it is child abuse. In some parts of America today they have after school people who move in to teach children that they are sinners. This was questioned in court and it was found that they could no longer use school property for this. The Good News Club of the religious right would have your child crying because they have "sinned" and much of America still goes along with it. I personally think that the club and the participating school should be sued to the max.
I attended sunday school from the age of 5 to 15 in the Church of Scotland, which is quite puritanical compared to some branches of Christianity but I cannot remember any of this. It was something I had to do which spoiled my sunday but that is all. Maybe it was because we had no Christian rituals or indoctrination at home.
are babtists baptists that babble a lot?
Yep...lol...sorry for the misspelling
@Luv2showdogs ,
just being silly but it did kinda fit.
I understand and can relate. I jettisoned the idea of god from my life long ago, and those ideas are not welcome back. I still occasionally find a stain in some far-off corner of my psyche, evidence of that idea. I do my best to scrub them out as I find them.