"My family is the template for your average European Catholic family...We had our problems, and without going into too much detail our history is filled with abhorrent instances of violence...Most of my earliest memories are ones that will forever bring tears to my eyes. My mother's insistence that God will help us through it, over and over again never panned out...Add to this the fact that the nuns in our school would constantly call me stupid and write off anything I would say in a discussion because it was always wrong...What felt like God's presence was just a mind-trick. Hypocrisy was rampant among the congregation." ( a quotation from: Ex-Christian.net / FAQs / Religion and mental health / Post# 37 / Poster's username: Dianka )
"Hypocrisy Was Rampant Among The Congregation."
by scout575 2 Replies latest jw friends
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bigmouth
Hypocrisy is a common thread through all religions. The more controlled, the greater the incidence of hypocrisy, I guess.
I think this poster speaks for those of us that thought we had a relationship with 'godlike' people.
A heartfelt comment by her. -
A Paduan
Scout's agenda is to portray other christian groups as just as bad or worse than jws - promoting the concept of "where else would we go" - and that bible god (literal bible god that is) is bad, so other religions are 'wrong' - "beware of christians"
I don't think that Scout has non-fundamentalist experience or thought.
I should think that the above example isn't "the template" - but an overlay of culture.