@SrRochardBunson @AdmiralFrosty Assemblies of God (the other big #pentecostal denomination in the USA) believes exactly that same shit. In fact that was the point at which I started to break with the church. Way back when I cane across this slightly irreverent tract (which contains several now dated cultural references):

https://web.archive.org/web/20070820045150/http://www.godstruthfortoday.org/Library/priddy/ibi_4_2.htm

I read that and my thought was, those preachers study the original languages and they had to have known that there were three completely different words with different meanigs that were all translated as "hell", but in over two decades of going to church I never once heard that fact talked about from the pulpit or in Sunday school. Basically, according to their own book, the "hell" that we were all so terrified of is reserved for the devil and the fallen angels only, not for humans. But of course that was the big secret that they did not want to reveal because fear of "hell" was about the only thing that kept some people in the church. My question was, if they were willing to mislead us on something so core to our beliefs as that, the thing that had given us nightmares as kids and was a constant background source of terror and #ReligiousTrauma in our lives, then what ELSE had they been lying to us about?

Quite a bit, as it turns out, but I can't contain it all in a toot. But once you start to realize that preachers lie all the time, even about fundamental things, it really helps you put things in the proper persperctive.

I also started #deconstructing around 2000. I suspect a lot of people did, and for the same reason: The Internet had just become widely available, and suddenly with the click of a mouse we could look into things they would not let us discuss in #church. And when you start to realize your religion is not the nice, neat, tied up with a bow thing you had been led to believe, that can set you on the path of #descontruction.