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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I wasn't super "uncomfortable", but weird.

when I was in 4th grade (late 90s) my friend invited me to go to her evangelical megachurch with her. she invited me by delivering me (and some of our other friends who didn't go to that church) a handwritten invitation, birthday-party style, at school with information that made it sound like there was this big event at her church where we could win prizes and such. "Come to Church Night with me and we could win a ride in a Hummer limo!" it sounded fun! and this megachurch was visible from the interstate near our neighborhood and as a catholic(ish) kid I was always super intrigued by this "church" that looked like a college campus, so I begged my mom to let me go. she had no problem with it. so I went, and was very, um, in awe of the lighting effects, the dancing, the louuuud, pop-sounding music, etc. I was with the big group for awhile and then me, and all of the other kids there who were guests of a regular attendee, got pulled into a separate room where we had to fill out sheets about what church we usually go to, "do you believe in Jesus?", get told that Jesus "saves"...almost like a sales pitch for us and our families to come to this church and/or become evangelical christians. It was so weird. They also gave us a bunch of brochures and pencils and crap emblazoned with the church logo to bring home. When the friend's mom dropped me off at home, I threw the "goodie" bag in the trash before I even walked inside. I knew my parents would've had some choice words to say about it!

Fast forward to high school and young adulthood, and I know SO many formerly normal and balanced people who got suckered into that church and kinda just abandoned all of their non-evangelical friends and instead spent all their time with church friends and doing church stuff. Church is still going strong and I find it very cultlike.

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I'm  curious -- what was your family's religion at the time?  Are you still religious - belong to a church, etc?[/quote]

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