I should also say, my parents deliberately kept me away from church, but I became interested in Christianity in high school and ended up converting in college. I've been in church for almost every Sunday the last 20 years. Some of the folks you meet there are truly messed up, that's for sure. But that's why they are there. That's why I'm there. If half the claims of Christianity are true, all of us are very messed up indeed.
But I've also met some genuinely good folks.
And occasionally you meet someone who wants to stir things up and direct the church into some sort of political direction. Most churches don't talk politics. Fortunately I haven't seen a person like this succeed in the churches I've been in, I've seen them fail, get frustrated, and leave.

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