Joykins
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I get what you are saying. My personal decisions has been to move to a mainstream denomination where they are pretty laid back (at least here) but still preach Jesus. We live mostly in mainstream culture but we still have some kind of faith, anyway.
This is dangerous and controlling *excrement* of course. I try to stay away from religious cultures of this type.
As an example, one of my closest friends recently told me he couldn't hang out with me anymore because "I wasn't living according to God's plan" or something along those lines. I'm not attending church, I'm not "under the authority of a pastor" and I'm dating someone even though my divorce won't be finalized until next month - even though my ex-wife and I agreed that we were okay with each other doing that if we met someone, and she started dating someone three months before me. According to him though, I'm essentially "living in sin" and being the "good bible-believing Christian" that he is, if he's going to obey what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 5:11 then he "can't even eat with me"... or at least that's the conclusion his overly-controlling mentor spits out.
This is dangerous and controlling *excrement* of course. I try to stay away from religious cultures of this type.
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