Growing Up Church of Christ: First Drinks and Guilt-Ridden Masturbation

• 1:01:49Church of Christ upbringing was so strict they couldn't say the word "fart" until age 15.
• 1:02:02First time doing anything bad was at age 20 and involved being tricked into it.
• 1:02:13Masturbating as a teenager came with crushing guilt about eternal torture in hell.
• 1:02:39The guilt cycle of masturbating, praying for forgiveness, and getting a rush from the fear created an addictive high.
• 1:02:54Father told them Judgment Day would come as a wall of fire, so they'd lay in bed waiting to be taken to hell.
• 1:03:12Baptism wasn't automatic—you had to choose it and earn salvation as a teenager.
• 1:03:49First drink was the day after high school graduation at a ranch party when someone tricked him with Everclear and sweet and low.
• 1:04:12Getting drunk felt like how normal people lived, so he committed to drinking every day for the next seven years.
• 1:04:40They used to drink in closets out of shame, then sit in the living room for fun.
• 1:04:57In Christian college with no supervision, they drank and drove every night, going to Walmart for doughnuts on the highway in Texas.
• 1:05:20Tim describes being intoxicated behind the wheel as the best feeling in the world.
• 1:07:47Pulling into the driveway drunk and making it home safely felt like getting into college—proof he was smart and responsible.
• 1:08:29Tim once got so drunk he woke up not knowing where his car was, later learning he'd gone to another bar and was yelling about Iraq War commitments while on cocaine.

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