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Fred Lynch's avatar

Damn! (In my Kendrick Lamar voice)

Thanks VMB, this one hit different

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Beth Ann Kepple's avatar

I’m speechless. Which never happens.

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Celia Abbott's avatar

I always think if Jesus's admonition about the repercussions for those who lead them astray. They really seem to have multiplied in my lifetime and also have seeped into "regular" churches and pseudo religious political organizations. I feel so sad about all the children raised in them.

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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Celia, that sadness is holy. Jesus said better a millstone than wounding a child, and yet the mill keeps grinding. Not just in sects on the fringe, but in churches that pass as respectable while feeding kids poison wrapped in hymns.

Grief is the right response. But grief can also be a lantern. It keeps us from pretending this is normal. It keeps us awake enough to protect the next ones.

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Steve Boatright's avatar

Sorry to jump in Celia and VMB but that bit of respectable churches feeding kids poison wrapped in hymns is just so true and so personal. I loved those hymns in our respectable church, I was weaned on them, and only when the scales fell off my eyes many many years later did I see that the words were harmful. Nice tunes though, perhaps I'd better write some alternative words.

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Celia Abbott's avatar

I think you are right on. I remember Onward Christian Soldiers in early years of school. Catchy tune. But as I grew and learned, I was very confused as to why God would needed an army to go to war.

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Dawn Elaine Bowie's avatar

There seem to be several of them out there.

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Dawn Elaine Bowie's avatar

It’s possible to be of another race and still choose evil. My mother was a survivor of a WWII Japanese internment camp in the Philippines. It was pretty horrendous but she still said, “There’s good and bad in everyone.”

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Nancy's avatar

Yeah...and yet I wonder, if this dude and his family were considered "white" enough, if there would've been charges brought? :(

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