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Ready for something completely ridiculous? This ad keeps popping up in my Facebook feed: If you click on the link, you’re greeted with a ridiculous article about how you poor pitiful single women can’t get a man because your sex drive has enslaved you to a demon. And that demon […]

Spirit Husbands: More Hypocritical Christian Misogyny

March 28, 2015 in The Christian Cult by admin

20 years is a long time. A lot of indoctrination. Three times a week, every week, sitting in church having those beliefs reinforced -its quite effective. So how did I finally work up the nerve to leave? It was a gradual process. For a good year or more I just […]

What Finally Made Me Leave The UPC

March 27, 2015 in My UPC Experience / The Christian Cult / Trauma and Recovery by admin

I look back now at my time in fundamentalist Christianity, and mostly I think… “What the hell was I thinking??” Case in point: how the Bible treats women. This isn’t unique to the UPC, but they definitely go right along with it. Even though as they do, they try to […]

Christianity and Women

March 26, 2015 in The Christian Cult by admin

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The United Pentecostal Church is a Christian organization with a very unique doctrine. I imagine I’ll get visitors here who are very familiar with it, and some who’ve never heard of it so I’ll explain it here. The UPC believes in the “Oneness” of God. Whereas most of Christianity believes […]

What Is The United Pentecostal Church?

March 25, 2015 in My UPC Experience / The Christian Cult by admin

Well, I’ve gone and done it now. The very title of this article is more blasphemous than dancing naked under a full moon with a snake. Or voting democrat. Or both. It’s one of the core tenets of right-wing Christianity that the United States was founded by Godly Christian Men, […]

The US Was NOT Founded On Christianity

March 24, 2015 in Recovering Right Winger by admin

Poor Bobby Bouche. In the movie, “Waterboy,” his Mama kept him firmly under her thumb by telling him everything in the world – from women to “foosball” to college – was the devil. She’s supposed to be a caricature, but part of what makes her performance so funny is the […]

Is That Satanic?

March 24, 2015 in My Pagan Path / The Christian Cult by admin

Today, the Indiana House of Representatives passed a bill that would prevent state and local governments from “substantially burdening” a person’s exercise of religion unless the government can prove it has a compelling interest and is doing so in the least restrictive means. In other words, give fundamentalist Christian business owners […]

Indiana Passes “Religious Freedom” Act

March 23, 2015 in Recovering Right Winger by admin

Ok probably not the ONLY fundamental difference, but this meme from my facebook feed today does sum up the core philosophical difference between Christianity and Paganism. At least, one of my very favorite differences. It’s not the singling out of women that bothers me here. It’s the idea that people are […]

Christianity and Paganism: The Fundamental Difference

March 16, 2015 in My Pagan Path / The Christian Cult tagged christianity / individualism / paganism / uniqueness by admin

When I joined the United Pentecostal Church, I was young. I had lost members of my family and in my grief was looking for something concrete. The services were exciting and the people warm and friendly. I jumped in with both feet, and before long was worshiping exuberantly and speaking […]

Red Flags I Ignored

March 14, 2015 in My UPC Experience / The Christian Cult tagged apostolic / christianity / conversion / Holiness / legalism / oneness / United Pentecostal Church / UPC by admin

My Pentecostal pastor used to deride people who said they didn’t want to go to church because of all the hypocrites. He felt that this was unfair. “Of course the church is where you find hypocrites!” he’d say. “Where else could they be? Being in church is what makes them […]

How Christians Turned Me Against Christianity

March 12, 2015 in The Christian Cult tagged batshit crazy / christianity / christians / hate / hypocrisy / intolerance / legalism by admin