Robin K. Harper
Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your well written and OBVIOUSLY well researched essay proves what I’ve been saying for years. I was raised in a ‘chandelier swinging’ evangelical church, heard all the ‘born again christian’ bullshit from a to z. I was barely four years old when I figured out it was all bullshit. How? I asked the Sunday school teacher a question. (Sure wish I could remember what that question was!) I DO remember her reaction: a gasp, a look of horror on her face, I’ll never forget that expression, and then being told that ‘good little girls don’ ask questions like that!’. Considering that an adult should have had an answer for me, other than her reaction, I figured something wasn’t right. Because of the situation, I learned to ‘play the game’. Kept me from any additional beatings I might have endured. (My parents, my mother especially, is a huge proponent of ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’.) I did manage to do some research on the subject while in school, and more after I escaped from the house and the town where I grew up.

It boggles the mind what people will believe. I grew up being told that science was ‘evil’. (Shall we revert to the 1400–1500s, anyone? I mean, seriously?) Anything that contradicted what was being taught from the pulpit was ‘of the devil’. The more I learned, the more I could see the work of man in the whole thing. A wonderful way for the few to control the many, and fleece their hides as well.

The downside to all of this ‘belief’ is that it was these people who put the current WH resident into place. I guess if you can believe the bullshit coming from the pulpit, anything the pumkinfurher says seems legit, right?

Again, thank you for a wonderful essay. (Diary? Blog? I never know what to call these postings!)

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    Robin K. Harper

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    I live in Washington state, I’m in the ‘over 55’ crowd, love to read, love to write, and I tend to be opinionated. Hopefully a bit entertaining as well.