Years back I was invited to visit a evangelical, Independent Baptist type church by a friend (Reply #60)

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60. Years back I was invited to visit a evangelical, Independent Baptist type church by a friend

The thing that struck me right away was how the Pastor's word was law. These folks weren't asking him advice on something - they were asking him for PERMISSION.

One woman had brought up that she was offered a better paying job but he shot it down as soon as he learned she wouldn't be able to attend church on Sunday nights and Wednesday nights. He said, with a look of complete seriousness, "No, you're not!" and she and her husband nodded approvingly.

This was just over the line in MO.

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70 replies	Author	Time	Post
Evangelicals are a big part of the problem. [View all]	milestogo	Feb 2020	OP
Point on...	wcmagumba	Feb 2020	#1
They've been the problem for forty years.	CanonRay	Feb 2020	#2
I'd like these people to tell me what corruption he is rooting out.	The Genealogist	Feb 2020	#3
The "Deep State"	jayschool2013	Feb 2020	#24
Waves...hello from fellow writer and former journalist nt	Blue_playwright	Feb 2020	#54
Back at ya	jayschool2013	Feb 2020	#59
The only corruption that Trump fights is weeding out the competition...nt	Wounded Bear	Feb 2020	#4
That needs to be on a bumper sticker and a t-shirt.	Dem2theMax	Feb 2020	#21
He knew they were a gullible crowd . Sorry but it was a crack move to bring Pence on. I have to	lunasun	Feb 2020	#5
Just like their religion...	Duppers	Feb 2020	#36
Trump figured out long ago that he could con gullible people.	CaptainTruth	Feb 2020	#6
The BuyBull. What a piece of shit that book is.	stopbush	Feb 2020	#7
"Every, single word of the Bible is true" That should be a clue	bitterross	Feb 2020	#8
The most-important BuyBull verse ever:	stopbush	Feb 2020	#9
I like Mathew 6.5	LakeArenal	Feb 2020	#35
Just gonna say that........	Butterflylady	Feb 2020	#55
Right wing Catholics are just as bad.	hunter	Feb 2020	#10
Why Martin Luther left The Church - Hypocrisy	rickyhall	Feb 2020	#40
...	Different Drummer	Feb 2020	#11
+1000	milestogo	Feb 2020	#20
It needs a few words added to it.	Dem2theMax	Feb 2020	#23
I read an article several months ago that explained that evangelicals are conditioned by	Arkansas Granny	Feb 2020	#12
I remember growing up hearing about the "freedom to obey"	FiveGoodMen	Feb 2020	#15
Years back I was invited to visit a evangelical, Independent Baptist type church by a friend	Jake Stern	Feb 2020	#60
Scary shit	Zeus69	Feb 2020	#13
All that, and he's still alive?	3Hotdogs	Feb 2020	#27
Nazis thought of Hitler the same	rockfordfile	Feb 2020	#14
That is the scary part.	overleft	Feb 2020	#25
When you confront them on	Skidmore	Feb 2020	#16
Ask them about those words in red.	safeinOhio	Feb 2020	#28
Perhaps she misspoke	Leith	Feb 2020	#17
She was raised to believe whatever the men in her life told her was true and never to question it.	Runningdawg	Feb 2020	#18
Like "Two Corinthians" for example?	mwooldri	Feb 2020	#19
I would have to ask her what made her think that	ooky	Feb 2020	#22
Wish they would "fly" away. Morons.	SammyWinstonJack	Feb 2020	#67
The more you read up on them...	Newest Reality	Feb 2020	#26
God save me from evangelicals.	Brother Mythos	Feb 2020	#29
Linus agrees.	Laelth	Feb 2020	#30
Evangelicals have problems with brain abnormalities	gembaby1	Feb 2020	#31
It's also a quick buck. Scam and con the gullible.	Maggiemayhem	Feb 2020	#51
They're brain washed	Faux pas	Feb 2020	#32
Evangelicals should be called Hypocriticals. I can't stand them.	Pepsidog	Feb 2020	#33
They are complete idiots.	smirkymonkey	Feb 2020	#63
I was born and raised in an evangelical church family	calguy	Feb 2020	#34
A Nation of Sheep.......50+ million of them.	DENVERPOPS	Feb 2020	#37
I call them Evangelicals, never add Christian to it.	TNNurse	Feb 2020	#38
I call them fundies or fundamentalists	lambchopp59	Feb 2020	#43
I've come to realize that a lot of right wing Christians are not big into critical thinking.	patphil	Feb 2020	#39
Sadly	Catch2.2	Feb 2020	#41
on facebook there is a post	tiredtoo	Feb 2020	#42
I don't believe in this stuff, but Trump seems like a good candidate for the anti-christ himself.	milestogo	Feb 2020	#58
Her brain is missing	Lucky Luciano	Feb 2020	#44
Radical Islamists.....our answer radical evangeliKKKals	Hulk	Feb 2020	#45
They are waiting for the End Days... They think Trump is the person, ugh.	secondwind	Feb 2020	#46
Agree	stuntcat	Feb 2020	#56
Which proves that she doesn't read her Bible.	LiberalFighter	Feb 2020	#47
Sign her to a contract, on the spot	bucolic_frolic	Feb 2020	#48
Evangelicals are THE PROBLEM	peoli	Feb 2020	#49
Drain the swamp meant drain logic and reason out of his supporters' minds	IronLionZion	Feb 2020	#50
Evangelicals are THE problem.	hamsterjill	Feb 2020	#52
I think it really got started with the holy roller movement out of which the "Charismatic Movement"	LiberalArkie	Feb 2020	#53
Evilvangelcals	I_UndergroundPanther	Feb 2020	#57
The answer is in your OP.	Pacifist Patriot	Feb 2020	#61
You've given an excellent description of what the Bible really is.	milestogo	Feb 2020	#64
Thanks	Pacifist Patriot	Feb 2020	#65
All the door-to-door religious folks have quit coming to my house.	hunter	Feb 2020	#68
Evangelicals are so sickening. And they're think they're so superior	raccoon	Feb 2020	#62
Show this person Fox's articles on Trump's scams. His stealing from charity and	Maraya1969	Feb 2020	#66
This sign says it all	Generic Other	Feb 2020	#69
I think there are 2 types of evangelicals: the 1 that knows better but doesn't care	Vivienne235729	Feb 2020	#70

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