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  50.  @garethmccartan3636  Unfortunately I DO understand what Christianity actually is after over 40 years being tangled up in it, where I was constantly pressured to change my sexuality to match the doctrine, with my aunt even advocating deliverance from demon possession, which many Christians actively believe. The result when one cannot meet these lofty ideals that are being presented to you is that you end up being marginalised, shunned amd rejected within most family-focussed congregations. It's not so much believing the doctrine of grace and salvation, which I have no problem with, but that in reality that paradigm may not totally fit some people. The indocrination feeling comes from trying to change your own inner convictions and feelings in order to fit into the belief around you, even though some churches present things more sympathetically, but when the rubber meets the road you gotta knuckle down to their ways. Gambling must be a terrible thing, so I sympathise with your story and glad that Christianity has worked for you. That is good. But I find the area of attraction and emotion harder to erase. No amount of prayers or counselling helps, although some claim that it does. In the end you are left to draw your own conclusions that some people will never fit into that tidy concept called church. When you get kicked out of a congregation & lose a church job you know it's not for you. The free will you describe from God the Father still has some parameters which is control. Understanding what Christianity is, and realising it as a viable option for all areas of one's life are two different things. At the end of the day it only offers a lonely existence of celibacy. 🙃
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