Is there anyone out there that has some compelling evidence ,or even just a compelling personal account of Modern Fundamentalist Christian life and the problems it has caused them or that they precieve it as causing in the World at Large???
I 'll start off, ....I was seventeen when I found myself living in a strange town, essantially homeless(I had relatives that would Allow me to use a couch,but infrequently) and unemployed ....Yeah,it was depressing,oh, I forgot, I also was a high-school dropout......
I would be foolish to say that my condition and mental status upon being "absorbed" (for lack of a better term) was anything near to "optimal".....I wouldalsobe foolish to suggest that the "church" was Not looking for just suchfare as I represented... Easy pickins'
I Was given a place to sleep,(with around ten others),and I Was given a job(whatever the Church said) and any and All income I generated was given straight over to the Church in return.....
This story went on for years and years while I worked my way upward in the Body Heirarchy to become at the end an associate Pastor,legally Ordained and Qualified...
The astoundingly quick and depravidly certain end of my career came about in the form of my insistence that GOD was in fact leading me in a different personal direction than the one the Main Pastor had decreed ....
Isuddenly found myself called before the Church Elders and told I was harboring a Demon... End Of Career....
Overnight I was back where I started...literally,only older and substantially wiser...Not an even trade off...IMO