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Tell a story of religious trauma and you are bound to get at least one person who says that you were just doing it wrong, in a bad church, or “following man instead of God.” I’ve gotten dozens of such comments on this very blog. My most recent was yesterday on […]

Religious Trauma & Evangelical Abuses: Real, Common, Systemic

June 18, 2018 in The Christian Cult tagged abuse / apostolic / christianity / christians / discrimination / hypocrisy / intolerance / PTSD / right wing / trauma / women by admin

The Truth Apostolic Church in Madisonville, KY is having a very bad week. Not only did their pastor, Michael Orten, hire a convicted child rapist and put him on the “outreach team” where he (among other things) runs the Bus Ministry (which gives children a ride to Sunday School) he doubled down […]

UPC Pastor Defends Child Rapist: “It Takes Two To Tango”

April 17, 2016 in The Christian Cult tagged apostolic / christianity / christians / dishonesty / hypocrisy / oneness / preachers / United Pentecostal Church / UPC by admin

So I haven’t darkened the door of my local UPC in over two years. There’s no way I’ll ever go back. Yet for some reason, at least half of the people on my Facebook friends list were church people. They’ve been dropping off steadily over the past few months, especially since […]

Finally Cutting Ties With My Former Churchmates

July 19, 2015 in My Pagan Path / My UPC Experience tagged batshit crazy / christianity / christians / hypocrisy / intolerance / United Pentecostal Church / UPC by admin

Josh Duggar is having a bad week. Up till now, he had no doubt assumed his prior transgressions – molesting young girls, including his sisters – would stay swept under the rug. And that he could therefore continue his “ministry” with the Family Research Council, warning society of the dangers […]

Josh Duggar And The Role Of Sin Forgiveness

May 22, 2015 in The Christian Cult tagged 19 kids and counting / Duggars / hypocrisy / right wing 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