https://theweek.com/speedreads/933569/b ... ious-right
https://www.gospelherald.com/articles/7 ... BdPBDz3MaA
I was raised in a holy roller atmosphere, country churches and fire and brimstone preachers. Early in my life I accepted christ, the whole story written in the bible had a ring of truth to me, well more in my heart than anything I ever read or heard a preacher say. As I grew up I rebelled hard, sowed some seeds and reaped a bitter harvest. I returned to the church in my late teens and entered into a ministry course. I preached from the pulpit in that time, taught sunday school, read the bible cover to cover many times. And i lived it too, I picked up hitchhikers and literally gave them the shirt off my back, gave one a 100$ coat in the middle of winter.I tried to live right, didn't party, abstained from sex. My second year in school i met a girl in my choir. A whirlwind courtship and rocky failed marriage and I was back on the run.
God and I declared a truce in the early 2000s. I didn't know I was bipolar and that was surely a factor but the churches felt like some kind of cult full of stuffy judgemental hypocrites. Pastors seemed to drone on when the only person who wanted to hear any more out of them an hour into their sermon was them.
Other than weddings and funerals(I've preached and sang at both)I haven't darkened the door of a church in 20 years. God and I get along great, its just people that call themselves Christians and support utter depravity , immorality, racism, etc I don't agree with. My faith was the first reason I rejected Trump and he's done nothing but give me more reasons every day. Nice to see I have some well placed company. Not sure if Jesus is a Biden man but he sure aint a Trump man...