The following is an excerpt from Goodbye Hello: Processing Grief and Understanding Death through the Paranormal by paranormal investigator and host of Travel Channel’s Kindred Spirits Adam Berry available through Regalo Press on September 26, 2023.A post shared by Adam Berry (@adamberry)Growing up in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, church was a big part of my childhood.
My parents weren’t that religious, but every Sunday, Grannie would make sure my brother and I were sitting in a pew at Central Baptist Church.
As a child I was “saved” and baptized in the same baptismal tank as my family—but the more sure I became of who I was as a person, the harder it was to feel any connection to a church where the pastor found any excuse to preach against the “evils” of homosexuality.
As I got older and found peace within myself, I became more and more estranged from a church that was sermonizing about AIDS as God’s punishment for gay men and that the entire LGBTQ+ community was going to suffer eternal damnation.By the time I reached high school, I had broken away from traditional organized religion.