Lasting Effects

[faithfyl]

I experienced the self-doubt and low self esteem since childhood. I was always doubting myself, always. And as a young adult, I couldn't make decisions because I was afraid I'd make the wrong one. It's hard for that to go away.

[agricola]

Never saved for, always saved from.

And that’s a big hunk of the toxin permeating their denominations.

They depend on fear and ignorance to keep their numbers up.

Ignorance of what Christ actually taught.

Fear of eternal damnation for doing anything wrong.

Rules and regulations and sins and taboos and shame and guilt.

No love, no joy, no compassion, no mercy.

Just judgment:
Be like us,
do as we say,
or go to hell.

A serpent feeding on its own tail:
Not knowing the teachings of Christ, they fear hell;
fearing hell, they are easily manipulated;
easily manipulated, they devour false teachings.

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[katisha]

Guilt....low-self esteem....self doubt....I had them all. Of course, I came from an agnostic family that treated me in such a way that I felt the CofC was a much better place for me, and I ended up getting more of the same. After almost 20 years out of it, and having moved many miles from my family, and experiencing many things recently that proved to me that the move was the correct thing to do, I have discovered that I am a better person without all that than I ever was with it. I still struggle some with low self-esteem, but it is not as bad as it used to be.

My main left over from those days is the singing. My hubby likes to watch a gospel music show that is on PBS every Saturday evening, right before Lawrence Welk. If I am in the room, I catch myself singing along with the ones I knew from my CofC days. And in the back of my head is this little tiny voice, almost whispering, saying "They are using instruments! You can't sing along!" I just tell it to shut the F**K up and let me enjoy the music.

We are all work's in progress.

[ena]

Guilt....low-self esteem....self doubt....I had them all. Of course, I came from an agnostic family that treated me in such a way that I felt the CofC was a much better place for me, and I ended up getting more of the same. After almost 20 years out of it, and having moved many miles from my family, and experiencing many things recently that proved to me that the move was the correct thing to do, I have discovered that I am a better person without all that than I ever was with it. I still struggle some with low self-esteem, but it is not as bad as it used to be.

My main left over from those days is the singing. My hubby likes to watch a gospel music show that is on PBS every Saturday evening, right before Lawrence Welk. If I am in the room, I catch myself singing along with the ones I knew from my CofC days. And in the back of my head is this little tiny voice, almost whispering, saying "They are using instruments! You can't sing along!" I just tell it to shut the F**K up and let me enjoy the music.

We are all work's in progress.

The Bible is silent on instruments in worship. The word denomination does not exist in the Bible. The we speak where the Bible speaks and are silent where the Bible is silent is a whopper. If you believe something is true that is not true you become your own worst enemy. I suggest Pentatonix. They don't use instruments. They beat-box. The Bass is outstanding. The piece here is a Leonard Cohen standard. He was Jew with outstanding insights into the spiritual. The vocals are wide range vocals. Mary did You Know? follows is interesting in that it wonders what she understood. When you serve God you do not know. Jonah did not like the Ninevites. He tried to avoid preaching to them. God deals with humans often with a sense of humor. Jonah preached and they responded saving themselves from destruction. Jonah went into a sulk. It is a Bible comedy if you read it with the right perspective. Spending three days in a dark smelly fish stomach is not my idea of fun. In the end the fish did not want him either.

Songs should auto play from here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRP8d7hhpoQ