I was raised in a fundamentalist evangelical household where speaking in tongues (spirit) and all realted new testament stuff was done. Also involved: the secon

I was raised in a fundamentalist evangelical household where speaking in tongues (spirit) and all realted new testament stuff was done. Also involved: the second coming, anti-Christ, books of Daniel and Revelations. They took it literally. Through my teens there were three distinct e.g. during AIDs onset for one my parent's church pushed the second coming as imminent which meant there was triple emphasis on being saved ... man oh man what an emotional and intellectually distorting time that was. I ended church by 17 and never looked back. Extended focus in that mind set also tends to lead to a kind of short-termism: if God is going enact the final judgement why bother about tomorrow? It is a very, very strange business to live through.