Wendy Lee Connelly
Hello.
Although I myself was never a member of WCG, it probably had a bigger religious influence on me than I readily realized.
I was not brought up religious. My mother is atheist, brought up that way by my grandparents. We lived with my grandparents when I was little. At one point in his late 50’s my grandfather got religion and took up with the WCG. This was in the late 70’s when I was 7, 8, or 9. There was no church in the area, but my grandfather got all of the subscriptions, had visitors from the organization a number of times, and talked to them on the phone, and harped about it constantly for a time.
Since this was the only religion in the home, I had no other contrasting perspective other than my mother’s dismissal of it. Because I was attracted to religion, I listened to my grandfather’s views, and developed a rather superstitious awe of the Bible that many conservative Christians have.
As a teenager I chose on my own to be baptized in a Methodist church. I didn’t think deeply about the doctrines at the time, because I accepted my mother’s one stated belief, that reincarnation was likely. I have put more thought into these things since. I have decided that I remain a Deist, and believe in God, but distrust religious doctrines as mostly man made, and that nobody human has all the answers.
You may list my name & email so people can contact me.
Thanks,
Wendy Lee Connelly
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