Where can you find evil ?

@NativePortlander1970 👍

@NativePortlander1970 they have been planted and financed to get on TV to start up.

@cherokeepatti I think this is past the start up phase.
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@NativePortlander1970 Sad thing is that these people will dig into their pockets and donate them money. I don’t understand their thinking. That money could be used locally to help people that they know or food banks or whatever instead of making these greedy preachers even wealthier.

@cherokeepatti Exactly

@NativePortlander1970 one of the first things they do is start preaching on tithing and then they go for these special needs or projects to top it off even more. Why can’t people see that they are being manipulated?

@cherokeepatti Because too many have been indoctrinated from birth, and the rest brainwashed when they became believers, many of them from religious 12 step recovery programs like AA, trading one addiction for another, I have seen that part on my Dad's side of the family with several cousins and their spouses.

@NativePortlander1970 exactly. I broke free when I was 10 years old after hearing a Sunday school teacher say things that contradicted things that I knew to be true. I stopped and questioned her on what she was saying and after about 4 questions she told me it wasn’t for me to question but just to accept. That was a red light for me and I stopped going to church and started reading the Bible myself.

@cherokeepatti You just told my own story. I grew up under a strict uber religious fanatical mother, I was forced to read the bible cover to cover every year from the age of seven, when I went through the methodist church's ritual of commitment before the congregation, until the age of 16 when she threw me into foster care, chosing her second husband, who used me as a punching bag when I questioned the bible and preacher in church over contradictions and hypocrisy, over me. My Dad died when I was ten, so I petitioned the court to do a home study on my paternal Grandparents to try and go back to Oregon from iowa, but was told they were turned down, I later learned they were approved, my mother lied once again, to keep control of me, even though I was a ward of the court by then, the state of iowa juvenile system and health and human services run by the Lutheran Brotherhood, my aunt being a member of it, the church controlling the state. My main questions were if god was so powerful, why did he drown tens of millions globally, instead of just changing the hearts of humans and not destroy the devil and his demons instead, and why was the preacher always quoting paul and not jesus.

@NativePortlander1970 It wasn’t that bad. But the thing is that I valued the truth when it came to spiritual things, I took that very seriously being a survivor when living with my father and mother and all the things that he did. Even at age 8 I would take small green cedar branches and burn them & pray. Nobody taught me to do that. I believe it was genetic memory from my ancestors. When a Sunday school teacher tells the class that if we don’t hurry & get Baptized and we die we’ll go to hell that struck a chord with me. I argued what if it is a baby and can’t make that decision. She said well it would go to Purgatory. Then I said what if it was a newborn baby just a minute old and died. And she said the same thing. Then I told her Jesus loved children and I don’t think God would do that to children. That’s when she told me it wasn’t for me to question and just to accept. Didn’t want me to use critical thinking. I was outta of there after that. A child’s soul is nothing to be trifling with, it’s sacred ground.

@NativePortlander1970 yes it originated from the Catholic Church

@cherokeepatti The cult started by the false apostle, paul.