Good for Shecks if Jesus and not nutting works for him. I grew up in the church and in my experience the adults that stick around are:
•fuck ups, burn outs and dead enders. Folks who would be complete and total disasters without strict rules to prevent them from destroying their life
•conservative, judgemental people. These people want to push their shit on everyone, are nosy, and love to find ways to trample anyone they see as beneath them
•safe space weirdos and homeschoolers who are terrified of the world and create a protective nest around them. Think kids with transitions lenses and floor length denim skirts. Probably believe in exorcisms and think that nicki minaj/lil nas x, megan the stallion are all demons
•the olds. Walking skeletons who are barely alive but are pounding that dmt button in their brain and are hallucinating that Jesus and Donald trump are doing the predator handshake.
•nice moms. My mom basically. Likes kids, wants to make sure they have a happy and safe upbringing, albeit one that comes with some arbitrary rules later on. Good natured, true believers with sincere principles.
For these people, church can be mostly positive (except for the conservative people who use Jesus as confirmation they're virtuous).
I think that basically church is good for adults, net neutral for kids, and bad for teens. Personally i didn't get any sex ed ever in my life, outside of "don't ever do it, be very ashamed of it, until you're married, then everything will magically be cool and normal and acceptable." As a result, i had to go through all the shitty embarrassing stuff that most people experience as a kid as an adult. I had a lot of unhealthy conceptions and ideas about what relationships and sex and romance were and it led to a lot of trauma.
But anyways congrats on being a born again virgin Shecks