sitsitwobble

"I was a good kid, I wouldn't do you no harm" - Morrissey I wouldn't go as far as to say I "grew up in the Church" - not in the way that my whole family were church goers, or our lives centred around it or anything.  But I did grow up in the church in the "my Mum put me in the little mini bus from the local Baptist church that went around collecting the local kids for Sunday School" kind of way. I guess it was kind of on the edge of our lives, or we were on the edge of it's. My mother became a church goer later, after my early stints at Sunday School. Maybe that's why the Baptist Church picked all of us kids up for free - it was a gateway to our parents? I'll never know.  My stepfather never attended -  a confirmed atheist - he was only ever respectful of our religious tendencies, he loved my mother too much to be anything else. It would have all remained pretty innocent I think if I hadn't turned into a lonely, scared and con...