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I was raised Baptist for the first 13 years of my life. During the scamdemic, after watching church online for a few months, my family started going to a charismatic church, partially because they protested the lockdowns. My mom had been involved with this charismatic church for a few years beforehand, which I was oblivious to. I always felt out of place there and kept my baptist beliefs, becoming agnostic freshman year of high school. The summer before my junior year, I started to become extremely interested in real Christianity, and was seriously considering becoming Catholic or Orthodox, I kept it a secret for months. I started getting extremely uncomfortable at my charismatic church around the same time (I always had these feelings they were just amplified). I started sitting in the back and walking out the back door to go for walks because I couldn't tolerate their disturbing practices (speaking in tounges, emotionally manipulative music, fake exorcisms, falling on the ground, female pastors, Israel worship, etc.) My parents behaved really weirdly about it, my mom was shocked when I told her I was going to church with my friend (we went there once and apparently she was hostile toward it). During a conversation with my dad about how I wanted to switch churches he said I wasn't mature enough to make that decision. I asked him how I could prove him wrong and he had no answer. A few months later I told him I refused to go to church with him. He was furious and threw a temper tantrum. He refused to talk to me for 2 days. Long after he started acting normal again he walked into my room to wake me up cuz I slept in I guess and saw a rosary on my bed. He looked confused but never spoke of it. I had a conversation with my mom about how I wanted to be Catholic so she already knew, she was very dismissive of it and instead of asking for my reasoning kind of just acted like I didn't know what I was talking about. As of now I'm done with religion.
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