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Did you go to a terrorist church?

Christians: how were you taught Christianity? Was hell introduced early or late?

Christianity is perfectly fine, but please, don't terrorize children in to it by threatening them with hell.

The very idea of hell can completely frighten children, also it can put sadist ideas in to their head. Psychology tells us that children shouldn't learn to deal with their problems by physically hurting someone, which is what hell is.

It doesn't matter what is true or not, these lessons can damage a child.

P.S. Hell can be introduced as a place where evil goes, but don't tell children they will go there. That is sick.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    You know what's real terrorism, it's when atheists talk about religion being child abuse, and it makes you wonder, because I've heard atheists say that parents shouldn't be able to "indoctrinate" children into their religion. That means they're not allowed to teach them their own Christian values. It's incredibly ignorant to assume there is nothing more to teaching kids about Christianity than telling them that they can go to Hell. When Christianity is taught the right way, you get good kids out of it, you don't get bullies, you don't get fornicators, and the unwanted pregnancies or STDs, something teens have extensive problems with these days.

  • Davids
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    I used to go to a Psychologized Church once, then another. Both were terrifying places and the experiences there "hell" for me and for my family.

    Real Christ following and Psychology (with its lots of irredeemable peoples) are not compatible. I'm not interested in your children. Just leave mine alone! If you don't like Christianity because it believes in hell, be responsible for your children's education but don't do what you hate (to us) either.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I hope this doesn't sound rude but who are you to dictate to anyone how to raise their own child?

    None of the Bible stories I was read as child upset me or damaged me psychologically. Children aren't as delicate as all that.

    Hearing about my period scared me a lot more than hell ever did. LOL

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I went a lot when I was a kid

    Now not so much, I can't accept the churchianity movement, so I

    keep to myself and my spirituality is a personal matter

    I haven't raised my kids in any religious ways, if they want to when

    they're old enough that's their business

    Peace

    Source(s): The Collector
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  • 8 years ago

    In the Episcopal Church we are not hung up about that whole hell thing.

    Terror has no place in church.

    Our God is NOT Osama bin Laden.

    .

  • 8 years ago

    While I was getting electrocuted crucifixion style the electricity was flowing right through me, I saw my spirit leave my body. Instantly, I was in hell! At that time, I didn't know anything about the bible. I wasn't a religious person or a Christian and didn't know any Christians. I just know that I was cast into outer darkness. I heard the most horrifying, tormenting screams imaginable. I heard these time and time again, and although I never saw who was screaming, I, myself, would scream because of the fear of those frightening screams.

    My sins were tormenting me while I was in hell, January 27, 1977. I saw my sins pass from my right to my left down to the age of five. Now here I am a young man of 27 years, seeing all my sins pass before me in living color. It was like watching a motion picture screen! I saw my very first sin committed at the age of 5. The sin of disobedience, and not honoring my mother and my father. My mother said, "I don't want you boys to eat those marshmallows. We are going to roast them over the fire in the back yard with the family tonight." Well, my mother caught my brother, Cliff, and I, hiding behind a stump, in our back yard in Farmington, Michigan, eating those marshmallows. This wasn't a sin of murder, or rape, or what ever the world considers a horrible sin, but a simple sin of disobedience. It was the last of a long line of sins shown to me. I saw sin, after sin, after sin. For every sin, there was a scream! Screams from me!

    People have asked me, "How long were you there?" Well, it felt like eternity! It was that long! I couldn't tell you how long I was there, but I don't want to go back.

    Besides the screaming there were also demons. Yes, there really are demons. Indescribable and most ugly things you had ever seen. They came up to me and taunted me. Yelling in my face, "We got you now!" Laughing at me saying, "We fooled you!"

    "We fooled you!" "We got you now!" Followed by hideous laughter.

    I found a Savior that took away all my strokes, back pain, brought back and restored my memory, enriched my life, and also took all my sins! He took all my sins and has forgiven me! It wasn't till about 4 years later that I could start talking about it to others!

    In September of 1987, when I was at the Nazarene Bible College, I was in prayer and God came. He took me into another dimension and showed me the "lake of fire" and held me there! There were millions of people burning in the "lake of fire." Their bodies were whole but they were burning! It was awful! Horrifying! Screaming people! It was a fearful thing to see, but I was at peace, knowing that God had his hand on my shoulder. I didn't know what to think about that. So I just kept it in my thoughts and went to school the next day. After arriving home, I went again to the Lord in prayer, at 3:30 in the afternoon and he came again. This time he showed me the whole thing and showed me the edge of the lake of fire. There were people falling over the edge. People were right on the brink of the fire. He said to me, "You are going to pluck them out of hell. You are going to save them and pull them back over the edge with your testimony. You will get them before they go in."

    There were hundreds of millions of them. What a fearful site! I remember writing it all down and asking, "Lord, where are all those people?" He told me they were all over the world. And I believe that in this day and age, God is going to use my testimony, and pluck them right back into existence and living for Jesus.

    My wife and I went to a camp meeting in Henderson, North Carolina and went to a church while there, and the pastor asked me and my wife to speak and give our testimonies. I told them about me dying and going to hell.

    After the service, there was this elderly gentleman, in the back who motioned me to his side. He told me he was 68 years old. He said, "I have been a church member here for 30 years. I have been on the board for 20 years. Ten years ago I died! I am very influential in the church. I was in a car accident. I was put in a body bag. I died and went to hell! I didn't tell anyone, that I died and went to hell! I was ashamed to tell anyone that I was sent there. Here I was a grandfather of this church!

    http://bibleprobe.com/lafond.htm

  • 8 years ago

    No, it didn't seem to be a big tourism spot. Oh....

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