Do as I say, not as I do right?

I had always heard that phrase "do as I say, not as I do" never really understanding what it meant. That is until attending the church. The pastors and the elitist were the epitome of this. There were sooooo many times when we were taught not to do something and they did that particular thing, or we were told to do something and they didn't. So i decided what better way than to just list everything that I can remember......here they are in no particular order....

Garbage in, Garbage out= only listen to Christian music/ the pastor loved several secular artist I found out on one teen activity where I had to ride somewhere with him, and after being drilled about only listening to Christian music and music that glorifies God, I got in his vehicle to see the Beatles number ones cd, Elvis, a couple of Country artists the radio station was on some oldies channel.

Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Twilight and like movies are from the devil himself and watching them, even wanting to, will send you straight to hell immediately=i was scared to death, literally of watching any of these movies for a very long time, I actually only felt comfortable enough with myself and my faith to watch the Harry Potter movies this year! The reasoning behind this ban of the movies was that we weren't strong enough to seperate the fantasy and the reality of these movies and we would fall prey to the belief in magic and spells and imagination and lose our selves. I went to my teen teachers house one night for an activity and what did i see next to her tv??? The Lord of the Rings (1st movie) and Harry Potter!! Can you imagine the horror i felt and the betrayal!?

Drinking, wanting to drink it or even having the thought of drinking strong drink will lead you straight to hell=we had this huge entire study about how even thinking about strong drink is the same as going out and getting drunk. We even would go to a certain fish restaurant every year for thanksgiving until they started serving wine that is. The pastor vowed that we would never patron them again for this reason. That all changed the minute a deep pocket opened up a pizza parlor selling alcohol, then we can visit them anytime we wanted, even have them sponsoring the teens for camp and having the teens selling their pizza to raise money for the teens. Our standing up against this was truly the beginning of the end for my husband and I.

Owls are a representation of aliens and demons and you should never, ever wear them or have a statue of them in your house=we had a study when the movie came out called district 9 or something where the people were claiming that they all were visited by a white owl, that turned out to be a alien, where the pastor attempted to prove that the bible, a few weeks later, the pastors wife redoes her daughters room and decorates with what???? OWLS!!!

You may read these things and think I am just being picky, but when you are drilled and scolded over and over again at how going against these things makes you a bad Christian and that you should question whether or not you are really saved, things like this matter to me.

i will post more as they come to me!