Yeah, basically, it sucked. This is why combining Pentecostalism with Mental Illenss = Bad.

You can imagine why, all these years later I still find myself dealing with all this crap. I might not BE an ex-pente...but it almost seems to require that somebody be one in order to believe half the stuff I saw or heard.

It might be worth a thread of its own...but, tonight at work somebody asked me why I got divorced, and when I explained the basics...the co-worker in question didn't even know what a Pentecostal was. (God, I wish sometimes that *I* could be 19 and ignorant of such things, again.) I explained a lil' bit about what Pentes are and what they do do and she was like, WTF? U Gotta Be Kidding Me! How could anybody believe such wierd things?

People like that give me hope, at the same time as they scare me. More people need to know about this stuff.