I attended a Methodist church as a young boy until about 13-14 y/o, in the ‘40s-early ‘50s. The hypocrisy I witnessed by the adult churchgoers on Sundays, after their Saturday nights of boozing it up, often with people other than their spouses, on Friday and Saturday nights at local bars led me to quit organized religion. The bars were across the street from a local movie theater, so when the movies ended it was easy to see the people inside the bars through the large windows.
Most of the church-going hypocrites were local businessmen who only attended to present a facade that would further their businesses.
Several years ago I knew an elderly woman in CO who had been a life-long Methodist. When the church switched to United Methodist, she didn’t realize that it was no longer the same. The United Methodist Church supports the LBGTQ agenda and has even put openly Lesbian and Gay people in as Reverends. ...The UMChurch destroyed the original Methodist church, IMO.