This is another sore topic for me. Songs like "Set my spirit free that I might worship you" come to mind.


I never got used to all the talk of "the flesh" and "fleshly desires", and I felt as though these over-the-top religious people were putting me in a straightjacket of sorts.

"Don't be human, don't experience emotion unless it's for the sake of the gospel, don't enjoy yourself or you're sinning".

"Take heed that ye not be deceived". (Yes, seriously!!! I listened to some awful tapes on this subject.)

"If he's not Lord of all, he's not Lord at all," one woman from a "holiness group" snarled at me, brandishing her second finger to make a point. "You've got to be holy!"