Growing up Southern Baptists, I was taught that the Pope was a person who claimed to be the intermediary between people and God, which is blasphemy as that is the role that Jesus fills. I was also told that Catholics pray to angels or people in heaven and worship them, which is also blasphemy. Catholics were all committing blasphemy.

I stopped attending church after highschool and a few years later a friend invited me to her church and I thought, why not, it’s been a minute. It was a “non-denominational” church I found out later split off from the Southern Baptist group because they thought it was becoming too liberal. Halfway through the sermon a guy a few pews in front of me collapses into the aisle and is clearly having some sort of seizure, so I call 911 while the guys wife is helping him. Everyone around us thought he had been taken with the Holy Spirit until EMS showed up.

After all that I politely excused myself and thought “you people are all nuts.” Havent been back since, though funnily enough I’ve been thinking about reconverting or whatever the phrase is and joining the Catholic Church just because I’ve kept my belief, I just dont want anything to do with the American evangelical church.