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\u2026 If you live in or around Charlotte the Mormons<\/a> are providing area North Carolinians with free entertainment<\/a>, and you don\u2019t even have to join. I think. <\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

They have over 400 Nativity scenes from all over the world on display and nightly musical performances. Sounds nice. Hopefully it doesn\u2019t have a hidden agenda. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always been afraid of things like this. Call me religiously intolerant or whatever the phobia name is for people who dislike people from differing religions, but I\u2019ve always had really really<\/em> bad experiences when I visit churches not my own. <\/p>\n

One Christmas I was lured by the live camels and all the twinkling lights to a local Baptist church\u2019s Christmas festival. An hour later I found myself herded into an auditorium where we were locked in and forced to endure altars calls and \u201chealin\u2019s\u201d. I\u2019m freakishly obsessive about being touched and personal space so you can imagine how well I handled a room full of strangers \u201claying hands\u201d and praying over me. Plainly, I absolutely lost my shit. <\/p>\n

Then there was that one summer I took advantage of the community church\u2019s free movies on the lawn Friday evenings. We did have fun but I don\u2019t know how they got my mailing address and phone number. I was hounded relentlessly for two years. TWO years. YEARS. They must train their staff at a Jehovah Witness Center for recruitment. It was unbelievable really. <\/p>\n

Then there was the now infamous incident at my cousin\u2019s church where I was chased around the lobby by an elderly woman passing out oyster crackers and calling it \u201ccommunion\u201d. When I declined explaining to her I was Catholic she held the oyster cracker up in my face and said, in all seriousness, \u201cOh. Well. Body of Christ, then.\u201d <\/p>\n

And finally, and most tragically, I let myself be bested by my own curiosity and visit a church in Cullman Alabama called, I swear, Holiest Tongues of Fire Snake Throwing Church For Christ. <\/p>\n

But Mormons don\u2019t snake handle or drink strychnine so I should be ok. Right? <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"