beware fundamentalist and bornagain churchs

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I am not saying stay away from jesus or even mainstream protestant christian churches infact I love jesus very much but I hate hypocripsy were are all hypocrites(including myself in some way of another) but this is a warning to the many aspies and hfas so desperate for acceptence that you go to churches like the seventhday adventists/pentacostal certain types of baptists and others like Johovas witness and mormons. The thing is with these types of churches and it may not apply to every single one of them but the majority of these churches put on a false beacon of acceptence to people with disabilities. These people in my experience really do "act" really nicey nice at certain places and times such as church and church related events but left me out of doing casusual like going to the movies or too dinners or too picnics and when I enquired they said I was too intense or obvisioly was just too different for them but they act like your best and closest friend whenever they see you they make you think that they really keen on you. They apparantly do this to allot of people with disabilities act over the top nicey nice when they see you at church or church related events but then drop you from doing casual things. Its is my experience that these people are hypocrites and are to be avoided like the plague. I just want to save others the pain that I have gone through if I can. Has anyone had similar experiences

There are. yes, a lot of churches and "churches" and cults and movements - it is by no means limited to theism - use what I understand is called "love bombing" and thereeby catch a lot of various shades of Green Monkey. This is how my sister was a temporary Mormon. I have been approached - good luck to them - by Conservative Baptists, Scientologists and the Up with Peoplers, among others.

The emphasis many evangelical churches and "churches" put on recruitment can lead to hard sell. It is not necessarily cynical - they may mean it very well. The question is will they back off if they hear a no thanks.

I would never [not that I never thought about it, but it never happened] join a group, religiuous or other, just for society. But my grandmother suggested it, and some people do.

Even a heavy fundamentalist church, though, is not by that fact a cult you cannot walk out of any time quid and quo do not match.

Fundamentalist of any religion are bad news.

ruveyn

Theres a lot of hypocrisy in that church, I know as I was an inside man in that Mafia years ago, I cant't go into the deatils as the last time that I did I had an phone call from a church member asking me to keep my mouth shut half hour after sharing that info with someone about the church's hypocrisy.

My sister did not last long enough to get there. She has shown me some stuff from thatr period that was mildly interesting - on the issue of the tablet lingo, for example.

She was attracted by apparent befriending and by the cool histories and doctrines. The fact that like her it was down on the ingestion of certain chemicals was great. But she was not so convinced as to go along with some practices and fell out. Three months, maybe?

I'm a lifelong member of a mainline Protestant denomination (Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, which is admittedly sometimes on the conservative side), and so I'm afraid I haven't had any first hand experience with evangelicals, personally. But, their selective literalism, obsession with specific subjects (the end times, homosexuality, Israel in regard to the end times, etc.), dedication to conservative secular politics, and barely hidden bigotry is more than enough incentive to stay away.
I used to have a friend who had once visited an evangelical church at one time, where he found himself the immediate attention of the pretty girls there (a standard ploy by many evangelical churches to snag visiting younger, unmarried men). He told me he ended up getting the best f**k of his life.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer