2007-02-04 12:58:06 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
so many bad experiences to choose from for best answer
2007-02-04 18:48:43 · update #1
Got conned into (yes, CONNED) going to an Assembly of God church. Background: I was raised Roman Catholic. I got there, and they were all "speaking in tongues" and being "slain in the spirit"....and I knew the true meaning of "Holy Roller"....as I was watching this, I seemed to lose consciousness, and "awoke" to find myself sitting out in the hallway shaking and crying. They said I just jumped up and ran out crying, and when someone chased after me, I was crying that they were all frauds and evil and that the God I knew wouldn't do that to people.
This was one of the turning points (aside from being raised in the Catholic church, haha) of religion for me, and now I consider myself Spiritual, but not Religious, and while I believe in a "God" consciousness that connects us all together molecularly, I don't believe in the God of the Abrahamic Religions anymore.
2007-02-04 13:13:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
As a Child being dragged off to the late Mass every Sunday at about 12 o clock midday in the Pro Cathedral Dublin This was the very long Mass lasting over an Hour long in Latin, and they also had the Palaestrina Choir singing Hymns the whole thing was brutal. I would go into a trance like state and my Head would be numb after, Physically sick for about an Hour after. I gave up on the whole thing when i was 13 years old.I dont like Priests or Nuns or anything Religeous now at all especially after all the Child Perversion Cases.
2007-02-04 21:24:58 · answer #2 · answered by janus 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In a Pentecostal church. They spoke in a wierd, demonic "tongue", they often babbled real loud like someone with turrets syndrome, and would then drop to the floor and wiggle around like they were possessed by demons or like they were having a seizure. And mostly the whole time the preacher just ran back & forth on stage yelling and screaming, like a lunatic. I don't ever recall them opening the Bible to teach, just mostly acted like that, every Sunday. Scary, when you're 11. I think these people do a poor job at "representing" God. You still see the same thing when you turn the TV on to watch Pentecostal preachers. They turn the whole thing into one big circus on stage.
2007-02-04 21:03:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
I went to a wedding at a very old Roman Catholic cathedral. Very creepy!
They had statues (idols) like hanging over the pews! You sat and would look up at these things staring at you. Doesn't this scare kids?
Then the bride and groom lit candles and bowed down to a statue of Mary.
Very creepy in deed!
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2007-02-04 21:11:03 · answer #4 · answered by Jeanmarie 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Being in a Pentecostal church where people were yelling in tongues and jumping up and down, totally out of control and carried away with emotion. Maybe it was therapeutic for them, but it was a very odd ritual that they insisted they had to go through.
2007-02-04 21:13:47 · answer #5 · answered by SB 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actually, it happened rather recently and continues. Tthat is, having science offer a vaccine to prevent and subsequently cure cervical cancer and then have the religious right make it a moral issue and block access to that vaccine. Thus, the Church once again denies reality and continues to perpetuate human suffering.
2007-02-04 21:04:13 · answer #6 · answered by copestir 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Yahoo! Answers Religion and Spirituality
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2007-02-04 21:00:54 · answer #7 · answered by cirque de lune 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Having an Evangelist come to our church, getting everybody speaking in tongues;the guy behind me gets "slain in the spirit', falls down and farts right near me. I prayed for the sanctuary doors to open and fill the room with fresh air, but I guess God was busy and let that prayer go by.
2007-02-04 21:03:28 · answer #8 · answered by Croa 6 · 8⤊ 1⤋
Being told that I am no longer supposed to have contact with my family. Hmmmmm....
Couresy of a bible-based community, how nice!
2007-02-04 21:07:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The drawing of my 5 year old kid of Jesus in the cross with blood all around.
2007-02-04 21:02:32 · answer #10 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋