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In the Service of the Most High! 6 years 6 months ago #2138

Kendra
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I happen to click on the site and look around. I did this for a few months, finally figuring out how to look at the articles. I finally reached out to the administrators via the contact page and expressed an interest in joining the group. They responded immediately and Mason set me up. I then attended a meeting and walla I found my place and I found the lord. I did not believe in the Christian God because I was raped by a member of the church my family attended when I was fourteen years old. He was the Pastor’s and long story short I was one of several girls asked to keep what happened to me silent and to practice forgiveness. My father was a sub pastor if you will and he told me to put it behind me and not to bring the whole church down because of one lost soul. I refused to return and I was beaten and sent away. I became the embarrassment instead of him. I never return to my parent’s house and when I turned 18 I was on my own. I still do not speak to them and they have no idea what happened to me or where I am because I do not communicate with anyone who communicates with them. I decided when I left them if their God was all right with what happened to me and how I was treated, I wanted no part of the Christian God or the Christian religion.

I feel like the Most High reached out and guided me to The Ephesus Gnostic Group website and here I am, a willing, happy servant of the Most High and I have a family of my own to love and have my love returned.

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In the Service of the Most High! 6 years 6 months ago #2139

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I also stumbled or was led to the sight and I brought my brother along with me. Both of us were real tired of the Baptist church and Christianity. Both our mother and father were Baptist Christians and they were not very righteous people. You all know our story so I won’t rehash it but it is what drove us away. All the bad stuff going on and being accepted and all the ways the church leaders try to make us feel as if we are supposed to be all right with people behaving or acting so fucked up all the time. I’m just going to keep it real, I got tired of the deacons and ministers making passes at me, checking me out, and commenting on my figure. They would do it in a joking way but it made me feel like the church slut. I saw women telling their husbands not to look at me, calling me a tramp and giving me dirty looks. I hated it and my mother and aunties joked about it too. My brother got kicked out the church for going off on a deacon that wanted my brother to set me up with one of the ministers who was interested in spending some time with me. He was willing to pay me for my time. my brother beat him up and when he told my mother why she didn’t say anything. I think he felt h could do it because she gave him a feeling it was all right. She always told me to be nice to my perverted uncles who were always touching on my ass. I think she was willing to sell me off for money. My brothers always intervene. So I was looking for answers and I found them when I found the Gnostic faith. No we don’t have to be nice to folks when they treat us bad. We don’t have to take shit off heathens. We don’t have to be silent when we are being mistreated or misused. I learned that when I joined the Gnostic Faith and I am very comfortable with my faith now.

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In the Service of the Most High! 6 years 6 months ago #2140

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Wow Kendra, welcome home sister.

I have a similar story I stumbled on the website and my life was forever changed. You all know my story and I never really participated actively in any religion although my first wife and her family were Catholic. They were terrible to me and I didn’t want to do anything they did because they are terrible people Every time I see an evangelical minister or ministers like the one who was on Bill Maher it only further convenes me that these people are not serving or representing the God who is God alone. I’m not sure who they are worshiping but it can’t possibly be the creator of all that lives. Jay…what opened my eyes was also being guided to the website and meeting all of you. I found my spot and my life has done nothing but improve.

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In the Service of the Most High! 6 years 6 months ago #2141

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We were semi practicing in our faith but I didn’t take it seriously. I happen to believe in the savior always have so we, as in dad and I, were the odd balls out. We just didn’t attend any kind of services or participate in any activities associate with the Jewish faith or religion.

I applied for a job with Laura and she brought me into the fold. I in turn brought my father in and I have to say we were both starving for something we could grab a hold of and feel something. The Gnostic faith did and does that. It was the rituals, the restrictions, the judgments, all of it just didn’t feel very godly. It made us doubt or cause us to be unable to take religion seriously.

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In the Service of the Most High! 6 years 6 months ago #2142

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I was Catholic, not practicing and not wanting anything to do with all of it. I am one of those who classified myself as an atheist. It was all bull to me and I didn’t care and didn’t want to hear all the religious rhetoric. I just always knew it wasn’t the way the church made it to be. didn’t know how it was but I couldn’t believe it was the way they say and the way they treat others always concerned me. You know let me put it like this, I wasn’t interested in a slut telling me about Jesus, a drug addict preaching the gospel, or a convict telling me about how he knew the lord after going to prison. To me all the bad people are the ones always talking about religious stuff. But I’ve found my faith and I am a believer in the Most High.

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In the Service of the Most High! 6 years 6 months ago #2143

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Kendra wrote:

I happen to click on the site and look around. I did this for a few months, finally figuring out how to look at the articles. I finally reached out to the administrators via the contact page and expressed an interest in joining the group. They responded immediately and Mason set me up. I then attended a meeting and walla I found my place and I found the lord. I did not believe in the Christian God because I was raped by a member of the church my family attended when I was fourteen years old. He was the Pastor’s and long story short I was one of several girls asked to keep what happened to me silent and to practice forgiveness. My father was a sub pastor if you will and he told me to put it behind me and not to bring the whole church down because of one lost soul. I refused to return and I was beaten and sent away. I became the embarrassment instead of him. I never return to my parent’s house and when I turned 18 I was on my own. I still do not speak to them and they have no idea what happened to me or where I am because I do not communicate with anyone who communicates with them. I decided when I left them if their God was all right with what happened to me and how I was treated, I wanted no part of the Christian God or the Christian religion.

I feel like the Most High reached out and guided me to The Ephesus Gnostic Group website and here I am, a willing, happy servant of the Most High and I have a family of my own to love and have my love returned.

Honey the more I hear about your mother the more disturbing things I hear. I will be making comments on all comments from now on in order fr all of you to see I am reading your post and to offer you more room to discuss things with myself, Mark, Luke, and the docs. We will all be reading and commenting as needed. They were out of line Deb and I had similar experiences form church leaders in the baptist church. I was told by an old minister that God said he was for me. I was offered an affair by the minister of the Church of Christ, and since I had children and I wasn't married, I was seen as an easy piece of ass. I know what this feels like. Just a few of the many reasons I always left the church with a massive headache whenever I attended.

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