I don't even like this blog, but I will write it.

I studied the Bible like "8 years" very intense. I got to a point, where I could quote scripture better then any pastor you know. I wrote a "Biblical" program used all over the USA. Took several years. If you want to know more, you will have to read past blogs.

I quit!

I am not sure if "quit" is the best word. But I did stop study, I did stop hanging around churches. So in many senses, "I quit".

In many senses, "I didn't quit". I love Jesus, and fully believe in him. This is why "Paul and I" (that I have talked about here) work so good together).

I found "MANY" things, that went against what I believed. My wife (at the time) was telling the kids "If you don't speak in tongues, you go to hell". Stupid stuff like that. A fucking cult if you ask me. Biblically, I can "disprove" stuff like that.., but to talk to someone "logically" about it (that's into it), is impossible. For years, we struggled with this (me and my wife). She had her whole church against my side. The church leader that was saying "he raised people from the dead". I don't (or) can't remember how often she tried to cast "demons" out of me. Bible in hand. And I promise I know the Bible way more then her. To me, religion is the "problem", sure not Jesus.

Our marriage was on the rocks. To me, it was that "church". I maybe "overreacted". I don't know. I don't regret, but maybe I shouldn't have done it this way. I drove my "first wife" away. A woman I really loved. She loved me, as well. I was just "SO" against that church she was in.

If I get mad, not alot will stop me. Well I was "MAD" over this. The way I looked at it, she was dragging my family to a cult. I reacted.

I told her "pastor" to suck my fuccking dick. I flipped him off many times. I even took my car and did "burnouts" in the church driveway. To say I was pissed, was a "mild" thing. What I knew at heart, it was a cult.. and I knew it would destroy my family. It did.

To this day, I am not sure how I should've reacted. I sure got my point across. Yet, it sent my wife running to the hills. She went to that church "totally" for awhile. Took my kids. But I hear from my son today (he is here).. we don't go there now.

In my thinking..

At least my kids will know what I think about it. "If you don't speak in tounges, you are going to hell (they teach). No fucking way. It's not Biblical, not true. Then they worry about it. They can "decide", dad still has a "say".

I gave up "Religion" 100% and complete. Not just for this, but for other reasons. I didn't give up is "Jesus". I am 1000% positive he is real! Religion isn't.

I know how to be, how to treat people. I know to be "truthful", I know to help people when I can. I got many faults, but the overall I follow GOD.

Why I Quit? If you wonder, this is part of it. I get asked all the time. Not just her church, many other things.

Gary