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I had a conversation with the man who signs my pay checks yesterday. He is a pastor. I asked when I was going to hear about all of the “unpopular”, “offensive” stuff, like what you write about and stated that I opted not to attend church until I heard all of the stuff that makes people squirm…like child sex trafficking, pornography addiction, and the like. I said that the church has promoted the story of “I am good” for too long when what was going on the other 6 days per week has often NOT been good at all. I told him that I had been asked by another pastor affiliated with the church if I loved the church. My response was that I had made a commitment to myself and God in 2012 to act with courage myself and to only have courageous people in my life. Which means I have learned to be alone a lot because such people are not exactly a dime a dozen these days. At church, I am often the person that overweight dudes launch complaints to over weak free coffee, or “do you have oat milk creamer” or women with giant butts complain about how uncomfortable the new furniture is to sit upon or things of absolutely ZERO consequence given the evils we are faced with so I have opted not to attend. I cannot talk about fluff stuff, make small and inane talk to be polite anymore. So, we’ll see how long I last because I am sure that is not what he wanted to hear. I spoke about child trafficking on court record in 2018. Life for me got very real after I left powerful people who are involved in evil stuff so I am not a “fluffy” person anymore. I do thank you for laying the truth out here…there is no more fence to sit on, no rug to sweep shit under. Thank you for displaying courage.

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“We are ruled by mental patients”. One of the best lines ever written. Thank you, Mr. Carrell, for aptly stating the obvious.

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