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it doesn't mean that everyone who leaves is going to end up becoming immoral, a drunkard or anything else that they wouldn't normally do.


I would like to add that unfortunately, in my situation, it never mattered how moral I lived after leaving my church. A lot of people simply thrived on speculating about just how immoral we (those of us who had left) had become. Those speculations became rumors, which became facts. That hateful, extremely un-Christian way of treating others was what convinced me that I had made the right choice in leaving that church. It also inspired me to "get out of Dodge". Sadly, those same people are still wrapped up in what we are doing now, even though most of them have not even seen me in several years, let alone live in the same state as me!