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1938. On the brink of a second World War. In Sweden, the initial steps were being taken towards social equalisation - what came to be known as the People's Home. On January 17th Nils and Astrid Wallin's son, Bertil was born.

Bertil Wallin, and his six siblings grew up in a devoutly religious home, in a residential suburban area north of Stockholm. Their father had broken away from the Pentecostal Church in the 1950s, to form a community of his own, The Prayer Society.

Prayer meetings were often held in the home.

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Bertil found the strictures of religion conflicting.

-I rejected the things I was taught as a child, Bertil relates. That particular kind of free church religiosity - which threatened Hell and Damnation if you didn't behave, was terrifying.

And the fact that certain things were considered sinful, things which to me were not in the least bit sinful. A mass of prohibitions and restraints - that limited my view of the world and my freedom. So I refused to accept it and lo