Here because of January 6th...

Thanks for the opportunity to process what I grew up in. It's sad, because I have good memories of church community, and evangelicals in the UK where I spent most of my childhood weren't like this, but here, I've lost my entire Christian community over Trump or my reaction to him. I have decided I can't attend any church stateside now - seeing the Christian flag and the American flag in a church is way too much for me after watching January 6th live. All the things evangelicals taught me about repentance have gone out the window since Trump. Seems to me American evangelicals don't really know the God I grew up believing in in the UK. Glad I wasn't brought up here, but it's a shame. Am sure some here can relate to the pain of losing the church community. What communities have you found offline that help? Feel free to comment.

Hi, I don't know if you're still using this platform, but I have found attending a support group at NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) to be helpful. My locale doesn't have one for adults managing a mental illness, but I attend one for families of people with mental illness and I've been warmly welcomed. Hearing how parents and relatives are learing to process and grow and innovate ways to cope and thrive has been inspiring and their company has helped fill a void for the time being.

If you haven't already, I recommend the book Star-Spangled Jesus, By April Ajoy. She does a really nice job of explicating a lot of things, within an American "Christian" historical context that I found very interesting and helpful.

As you have seen the exposure of so much fraud and corruption, I hope your opinion has changed somewhat. I have served over twenty years under the American flag and consider myself fortunate to be an American. I have seen a great deal in my 73 years and much has not been good. While much of Western Christianity has become an entertainment industry as well as having a great amount of heresy and Kundalini spirit influence there are still balanced and based churches left.

Ron, I have to say it's just another country in the end. We are a military family and I love this country, but it isn't special; in fact it's far more corrupt than some others. I do not want to worship under an American flag; that is one of the biggest problems with the American church. It's just the Church, there should be no "American" about it. I have had quite a lot of help from Episcopalians in my time of exile, so I haven't ruled out finding a church family quite yet. While I see nothing wrong with loving the nation God put us in, it's pretty clear to me that nationalism is heresy for a Christian.