I was dragged to church 3 times a week, from the time I was born to the time I was about 18. From the early 50's on, they were prepared for the Rapture at any minute. If I smoked, drank, cursed, danced, went to the movies, or Gasp! had sex, I was going to hell. There were tear-jerking stories of young people dying in their sin and being flung into an eternity in Hell, and alter calls each meeting to get saved or back to God. It's a real mindfuck. They were sincere.