'Preachers' Daughters' Exposes Faith-Based Family Struggles Behind the Pulpit

[struggle4progress]

... In an interview with "Nightline," seemingly typical teenager Olivia Perry from Oceano, Calif., offered a healthy dose of what it's like to grow up with everyone thinking you must be "good."

"When I say, 'Oh yeah, my dad is a pastor, they are like, 'Oh, OK, you must be the good girl,' or 'you don't do anything wrong,'" she said.

Anxious to prove her classmates wrong and fit in, Perry spent a good chunk of her teenage years living a life filled with "sin" ...

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[Warpy]

1. Every preacher's kid I ever knew had a period of hell raising

usually during their mid teens to early twenties, rebelling against their straight-and-narrow parents and expectations.

A couple of them even landed in jail, although the sentences weren't long or harsh since Daddy was a preacher.

Some of them straightened out and one of them became a preacher.

[struggle4progress]

2. Lots of teenagers go through something like that

[Warpy]

4. They weren't as driven as preacher's kids were

There was a difference in the intensity of hell raising.

I raised a lot of hell, but most preacher's kids put me to shame.

[lapfog_1]

3. There is a song that sums this up...

They say there's a Heaven for those who will wait
Some say it's better but I say it ain't
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
The sinners are much more fun...

[immoderate]

5. Bob Larsen is behind this? Explains a lot...

I used to enjoy watching his show where he did exorcisms. I was always fascinated that his people, though possessed by demons, never used bad language on camera that would have to be bleeped.

--imm

[dimbear]

6. There's an old saying that PKs are either devils or angels.

I think there's some fire behind that smoke somewhere. If you add in rabbi's kids, you get some pretty important historical figures too!

[cbayer]

7. We were called PK's and were often distinguished from other kids

by our acting out.