SemperFiDawg
Political Forum Arbiter of Truth (And Lies Too)
I hope one day you can get past your animosity to the church you grew up in and realize that maybe, just maybe you've thrown the baby out with the bath water. There are some good churches out there and they do have much to offer you and your loved ones. Problem is, finding one can be a chore. If you lived closer to me I would invite you to mine. It's chock full of red-neck, back woods, blue collar folks that love nothing more than to hunt and fish. Blue jeans, baseball caps and work boots are Sunday morning attire. Show up in a shirt with a collar and you're gonna stick out like a sore thumb. Preacher drives an beat up 20 year old truck, lives in an 100 year old frame house and don't want anything better. Just common folks worshiping an uncommon God.In the Baptist culture I grew up in, drinking any kind of alcohol was a horrible sin. It was in the church covenant hanging on the wall beside the pulpit. Old women would be like: "Well, ol' Raiford might have raped and murdered and chopped up all them women, and stoled all the money his grandma had, and beat his daddy up with a baseball bat, and stomped little fluffy kittens, but at least he never was bad to drink."
I don't go to church no more.