enoughisenough
Thank you for that link.I realise how fortunate I was to be in a more liberal congregation for the last many years I was a beleiver......I actually had a close relationship with a few ( 4) Elders where we used to have a friday night together having a few drinks and socialising as familys ,and our kids knocking about.
And having a BBQ over the weekends was not uncommon. We were all drinkers and I hasten to say responsible drinkers.
We were all about the same age and I was a MS .3 of the Elders were self employed one as a painter the other as a builder , and another as a plasterer . The 4th one was a sales rep for a commercial company .
They all owned their own homes or had morg .on them
And I had a full time job in a refinery and at that time renting.
And none of us had higher education it was all self taught.
I`m happy to say we now own our own house paid outright on my retirement.i was in my last job for 28 years.
In my 30 plus years in the religion I never experienced any of this crap denouncing HE.,and I attended in total about 6 congregations ,as renters we did move around a bit.
I converted to da troof in 1960 and left in the mid 1990`s
it`s a bit of an eye opener even for me now , what some of you had to put up with.
I hope all of this makes sense as it`s my happy hour now.LOL