I est alone a lot too.

Agreed!

I understand completely! I have never felt remotely welcomed into my daughters life. The conversations revolve completely around church. I believe that the church occupies everyones time completely so that there is no time to question anything or even have a conversation that does not revolve around church.

I spent my life raising a child that I adore! She has two children who I have doted on from birth. She is a drone for the church now. A church that has taken something very precious to me. I am mad, bitter and filled with disgust! That is true but when she regains “Free Agency” I will be waiting with open arms. Her church friends and life will shun her if they can’t bring her back into the mind control fold! Bitter to the end!

Then the rules become more important than the philosophy.

Tolerance is preached by many churches and religions but tends to get waylaid.

Religions also, unfortunately, practice excommunication and disenfranchisement. Disconnection in the Scientology church. None of which endear people to that religion. Religion is supposed to bring families together, not split them apart. When it does this it has failed.

I don’t know this person. I’m just speaking from my personal experiences and experiences others have expressed to me. Yours might be (and sounds to be) completely different.

You still don’t get it. I don’t care if he goes to church or not. That’s his business. What I care about is that he doesn’t love me or want much, if anything to do with me. ‘Crippled spiritually’ has nothing at all to do with this situation. But you are proving a point that non-members, inactive members feel the suffering is more on THEIR side and are unwilling to accept that they can have a good tolerant relationship with members who DO NOT HASSLE them. Does it make sense now???

Whereas on the other side of the other side of the coin… Many members see anyone who does not believe in the church, in their eyes, to be crippled spiritually.