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I went with a friend in the 80's when I was about 9 to a Pentecostal summer camp in East Texas. No one in my family really knew what Pentecostal was at the time, other than just "Christian". That is, until i came home at the end of the summer screaming and crying in Hysterics because my whole family was going to burn in hell for eternity due to "improper" baptisms. I draw the line on religions that insist that their proper brand of Jesus is the only genuine brand, while all others will be tortured for eternity due to their inaccurate interpretation of the fine points. That's fear mongering, plain and simple, and fear should not have such a dominant place in spirituality. In government, why not, but not in spirituality.
