What made your parents leave the church breh?
My mom started going to another church and questioning the doctrine she had been taught over the last decades. Sometimes she would drag me or my brothers to the new place, whereas my dad stayed at the old church until he got into a theological debate with someone from the new church and lost.
So we switched to this new one, which was non denominational. No dancing, no choir. Everyone would sing hymns and sometimes a lady would do a solo. It was basically like underground rap fans: nonstop shit talking about mainstream Christians, elitism, and lots of focus on dead dudes no one else talked much about - in this case the apostle Paul instead of Dilla.
I became more religious now that it wasn't a giant game like at the previous church. But in truth my religion was moreso a reaction to the kids at church who treated me like shit. The church was in Detroit whereas we lived in a white city an hour away. I was accused of acting white all the time. So I responded by memorizing bible verses and mastering various debate techniques, and embarrassing the kids in Sunday school. I was an asshole.
Then I'd hang with religious kids back home and debate them and rustle jimmies. I played basketball at a Baptist school and would piss them off with shit I learned in church. Like I'd say "where in the bible does it say Gentiles are supposed to be baptized" or "Jesus' message was aimed exclusively at the Jews, he had nothing to say to you." All biblically correct but I was a jerk about it.
I was pretty confident in my bible trolling until I ran into a Jehovah's Witness and got annihilated. I told my mom and she literally said "don't talk to those people, they're a cult."
