Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
yup, I spent a lot of time volunteering in a youth group in my early 20s at a Pentecostal church and left after a pastor told me I deserved to be tortured in hell for eternity for having doubts. That is when I left.
He was a jerk, and you should have left. But why let one misguided man let you close your heart and mind to faith in God? You gave him way too much power.