“The Presbyterian church left me decades ago.”
The Anglican church left me. I feel your pain and I understand. But God still loves you, he’s never stopped. There are faithful people still out there and faithful churches and we need all the good people - especially folks like you, that we can get. :)
Peace + blessings Sir.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Yes I agree. I am deeply religious. When I mentioned off-handedly to my then Presbyterian minister that I prayed and spoke with God daily he was very uncomfortable. It was “well that’s very nice but there is the real world.”
Of course there is the real world but when he asked me to send money to communists in Africa claiming some money will “trickle down” to those who need it, I began to object.
Most of the money was going to tyrants like Idi Amin.
Not gonna happen.
There were many other disagreements as well that we don’t have time to cover. Eventually I decided my relationship with God did not depend on my relationship with a church.
BTW the minister I refer to was head of the the Presbyterian church in ...ummm... the middle 80’s IIRC.
He once told me to submit to a local government charge against me and my family. I was unemployed and a “friend” claimed our children were being deprived because all other kids in our community had access to cable, video games and other perks.
At the time my oldest son became an Order of the Arrow and Eagle Scout. We could have cable and games however they were very low on our list. Bills first.
The minister advised that you can’t fight city hall and to let CYS take our children until we were on our feet.
We fought and we won. My one regret is that we didn’t pursue the issue.