[presently no screen name]

haven’t darkened the doors of a baptist church in thirty years.

Well, it's good to read that you admit you did darkened their doors - in that case, it's good you left and haven't darkened any more. Since doors burn and your soul lives forever, thinking more about a darkened soul, IMO, is where the value is. Giving up Christianity - as you state - 30 years ago was your choice. If you're content on the surface w/your choice, so be it.

When I enter or leave a place of value, it is never darkened.

[Old Mountain man]

I don’t find baptist churches places of value. I find them dens of absolute hypocracy.