My first reaction was a lot of profanity and rage. HOW DARE YOU INVADE OUR PRIVACY LIKE THAT!!! But then, this IS a public blog, even though we share and try to help each other deal with the wounds caused BY PEOPLE LIKE YOU.


Angel- I'd bet you'd get very angry with me. Probably insult me and call me all sorts of nasty names.

My experience of YOUR kind of church is that it is bigoted. Violent. Hate-filled.



Why?



Because at Age 35 I learned that I am actually American Indian. Because of persecution, my ancestors had to hide their identity in order to LIVE. The "Good Christians" of the past made sure if they were found out, they would die. It's been a family secret for generations.

I've been thrown out of churches FOR JUST BEING INDIAN. Many of the members of my tribe have had the same experience. I've been told many times that I'm a heathen heading for hell. Denied service in businesses, and had my live obstructed, and churches like yours tried to WRECK my life.
Every time I start to share my experiences AS a Native American, "Good Christians" attack me and say I'm playing the race card and things like that.

I've learned to associate anyone who claims Christianity in public with RACIST BIGOTRY!!!

You want to know a funny thing, Angel???

I am Christian- but one that follows the traditional path of my ancestors as best as I can in today's world. My path IS Christian- a pre-Columbus form of Christianity. Yet the more fundamentalist or Pentecostal a church is, the MORE LIKELY THEY WILL PERSECUTE US AND TRY TO DESTROY US!!!!!!!! I'm still working on undoing the mental and spiritual damage DONE BY CHURCHES LIKE YOURS - 27 YEARS LATER!!!

You won't believe the HELL my life has been and the suffering I've gone through- and it all falls at the feet of the "Good Christians". Have you ever been stalked? Had your life threatened? Had people reveal private information about you and try to use it to destroy you? I have- All by "Good Pentecostals".

So why don't you listen instead of coming in here to pound us over the head with your Bible???? (Which, by the way, is typical abusive Pentecostal behavior.)