I'd love to do my best Jim Carrey impersonation from "Liar, Liar" and yell, "The truth shall set you free!"
Congratulations and please don't feel bad for not revealing this before. Like Julie said, you're not the first ex-pastor on this board.
I highly doubt you'll be the last.
We also had trouble with our brought-up "faith". We were both raised up VERY strictly in the Catholic church (went to parochial school, mass every Friday and Sunday) and if that doesn't screw up your brain, nothing will, in our humble opinion. We were made to feel guilty about everything we did--good or bad.
We've since smartened up and "broken" away from the church, but, we feel as you do:
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I look at Jesus and see a person who would love and accept me as a cussing, sex loving person who desperately wants to help make the world a better place and just love people.
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This is so totally different than the fire and brimstone we were raised with. We no longer feel guilty about anything either. One of the best feelings we've had in a long time!
We don't have a problem with justifying our swinging with how we feel regarding our feelings toward Jesus. He
was a way-cool dude and we would have loved to know him.
Swingers, for the most part, are very gentle people who don't set out to hurt anyone. We're honest and we love our spouses beyond others wildest imagination. Since we've been swinging, foregoing our religion been a weight that's been lifted from our collective shoulders and we feel more free to live our life like WE want! We're still the same people we were. We still give to charity and we still love our fellow man.
Actually, Mr. Alura hit the nail on the head. (He is one smart guy, ya know?) I'm just a little (little? Yeah, right!) opinionated though, so I had to throw in my $.02 as well.
Holly