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“I can’t get enough of this show, so much so that I’ve listened to all the seasons multiple times. My great grandfather was a deacon and occasional preacher in the southern baptist church in the Atlanta area. His son, my grandfather has pastored southern baptist churches most of his adult life. Therefore I am the daughter of a preachers kid. We never attended church when my parents were married, I occasionally went to Sunday school with an older woman that babysat us and with my Dad’s parents but that was it. Fast forward to sometime around my 13th birthday and I visited what I would call a small mega church that was COG. I was “saved” and then brought my Dad into that same church when he was really struggling with his divorce. For about a year it was exactly what he needed and it served me as well, church camps, youth choir, adult choir for my Dad, all sorts of groups and things for us both to feel that church’s core goal of “Love, Acceptance, Forgiveness.” But as so often happens things seemed to sour quickly, my Dad was a phone man for 35 years he always wore a suit and tie to church and is literal the most empathetic caring man you’d ever want to meet. However we weren’t part of the “in” crowd at this church so time and time again we were dismissed and treated like just another butt in the seats at every turn. There was so much drama amongst the people there and as my Dad struggled financially we watched as the pastors wore designer suits and drove expensive cars and lived in the expensive parts of the Atlanta suburbs. It began to feel less love, acceptance, forgiveness and more Joel Osteen give me your money. I don’t remember what finally made us stop going but I do remember the pressure to “perform” the rejection when you didn’t fit the mold, and the utter nonsense of speaking in tongues and falling out in the spirit (which I definitely did). I have been agnostic or atheist (I can’t decide which fits me best) for about 8 years now. I had some other experiences trying different “spirit filled” churches in my young adulthood and always ended up with the same feelings of rejection and greed. Every episode of every season has offered me the opportunity to either laugh, cry, or shout amen! Lol! Pods like this one are so important to help unpack all those feelings I and others stuck in a closet when we decided we’d had enough “church.” Please keep telling these stories!!!!”
Tiffany Snook via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/08/23
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