emotionalinmo wrote:
Xolanifree, that tactic is similar to the one they use to keep women from cutting their hair. "If you cut your hair and then get it a car wreck, it's your fault because you cut off the angels protection from your life." It makes me sick and I can't believe I believed that nonsense for 13 years of my life.

I felt that way for a long time, emotionalinmo!  I wondered how I could be so stupid!  But I've quit beating myself up about it, because I was exposed to all the crap from the day I was born, and it was endorsed by my parents who were my whole world until I became old enough to ask questions and look around and see for myself.  And even after I started asking questions, I was scared that it WAS the truth!  Those of us who were children in the pente church were abused and brainwashed, and for that I will forever hate those people, all of them.  But I don't blame myself.

For those that got into the pente church as adults, I'm sure that what you found there filled a void or met a need that you had at the time.  Even adults can be vulnerable as we all know, and pentes seem to have an incredible ability to spot a weakness and prey on it.