Red_Geranium
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And that never works.The youth pastor they hired when I was a young teen WAS a hellfire and brimstone guy whose mission was to scare kids out of hell.
That was the anti-drug program my kids were in when they attended local schools.
The youngest is now at college, watching people experiment with drugs, and the absolute disasters everyone in Middle School promised him, are not happening. People can maintain passing grades with regular ingestion of cheap trendy mind-expanding hallucinogenic pharmaceuticals. Makes him wonder what else the counselors lied to him about.
Since they taught fear, first, the training only works as long as he stays afraid.
He's got too many anecdotes to be afraid. even if everything else they told him was gospel, it's all built up on a base that he now rejects.
Definitely true.
I have a conjecture that fundamentalists might be more likely to go atheist/agnostic than liberal Christians for a similar reason. When a church teaches that the Bible describes real, literal people, places and events, they're making empirical claims about history and science....which can be investigated. It's easy to see that there's no evidence for a global flood, young earth, or events like the Exodus and loads of evidence against. If the Bible was wrong about those things, it's definitely not the perfect word of god. *foundation crumbles*. I think things are a little different for people brought up with more liberal Christianity... Would be interesting to see if there's any real evidence one way or the other.