When I was in the Assemblies, they kept preaching at us that if we didn't forgive others, God wouldn't forgive us (based on the standard and definitely 'not quite correct' translation you commonly encounter).  They turned a plea for help into another rule/commandment and threat from "God".  I even heard this threat on occasion in the steeplejacked Episcopal churches, especially from the more charismatic/fundamentalist members (I suspect many were steeplejackers).   Usually the threat was an attempt to get me to lower my guard so that they could pile on more abuse.  It was also a way to protect the elites/leaders/abusive people in the church from suffering the consequences for the things they did to people, and it promoted injustice (in other words, helped to maintain the status quo).  I suspect that what I experienced is quite common.

Another thing I read lately put a whole new spin on the parable of the rich Pharisee and the tax collector... a spin that you would never hear in a dominionist church, because it flies in the face of their support of the status quo.  I didn't hear it in the Episcopal churches either.  It strongly supported the "Liberal" Jesus and helps to disprove the conservative/dominionist version.

When I was in the Assemblies, they used to prattle about Bible studies and Bible scholarship (and claim that only their churches actually studied and read the Bible).  Usually it boiled down to "read the scriptures and this is what they mean"... and as I learned more, the more I realized that they didn't have a clue to what Bible studies and scholarship actually is (and this understanding of their lack of knowledge grows on nearly a daily basis).  Even in the Episcopal churches we attended, the emphasis was on the modern translations used today and NOT trying to understand what Jesus would have said or what He actually taught.  There is a deep dearth of real scholarship, and everything I've learned causes me to learn more and more towards an extremely liberal understanding of Jesus.  The "Jesus" you hear about in the Dominionist churches?  They have to twist and misunderstand the scriptures to support that "Jesus", and the scriptures that they use may not have the proper meaning as you would have encountered back in Jesus' time anyway.

I'm glad we've been finding things like that site on the "Lord's Prayer".  It has helped to free me from chains put on my soul by the dominionist churches and by their steeplejacked cohorts.  As time goes on, I find myself more and more free... and the Jesus I've been learning about is one that I can accept, unlike the abusive, demanding, perfectionist Jesus I was taught for most of my life.  (I'm also getting back to the Jesus I knew as an infant and little child- one that valued justice and right and who was kind and caring -and not authoritarian and autocratic.)

REAL Bible scholarship is a tool we can use against the dominionists.  With so much nonsense being spouted by them... taking things out of context, misunderstanding (and even denying) the problems with translation, cultural differences, and so on... if we can show these problems clearly, it becomes harder for them to hold to their ideology.

Isn't it amazing how a little thing like that (discovering a website that destroys a single Pentecostal/Dominionist/Fundamentalist teaching, for instance) can have such a deep and powerful impact on a person?  Knowledge truly can free you.