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To: Luke21

As an adult walking into the world of pentecostalism, I did not have any preconceptions of some of the ideas forwarded by them. The ideas at that time, 1986, were: the U.N., computers, anything TV bad, radio music bad, dancing bad, among the other usual bads of the world.

Here was ‘the rub’ . I am a 1st generation computer geek, complete with punchcards, purchases, reels of magnetic tapes filled with COBOL and versions of FORTRAN. I learned all this in the U.S. military in the 1970’s. So this “computer bad” thing was ahem scatalogical. As a Vietnam veteran, a simple radio playing American music was as close to home as it got. (Even today, I am still more radio than TV.)
Radio a problem? Again, ahem scatalogical.
But, yes, after several years of experience, and last straw, after commenting that I write science fiction, and being informed that science fiction is ahem witchcraft, I moved on.


11 posted on 08/20/2021 2:55:40 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Terry L Smith

Pentecostals think science fiction is witchcraft?


23 posted on 08/20/2021 3:30:23 AM PDT by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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To: Terry L Smith
The ideas at that time, 1986, were: the U.N., computers, anything TV bad, radio music bad, dancing bad, among the other usual bads of the world.

It was the same during my teen years back in the 1950s.

"Why is dancing a sin?" "It's not, if you can dance to the Glory of God. But it leads to sexual lust, not to the Glory of God."

"Why is sex wrong if God made it?" (They never answered that one.)

71 posted on 08/21/2021 10:19:27 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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