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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 โ€œunpopularโ€, โ€œoffensiveโ€ 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 squirmโ€ฆlike child sex trafficking, pornography addiction, and the like. I said that the church has promoted the story of โ€œI am goodโ€ 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 โ€œdo you have oat milk creamerโ€ 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, weโ€™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 โ€œfluffyโ€ person anymore. I do thank you for laying the truth out hereโ€ฆthere is no more fence to sit on, no rug to sweep shit under. Thank you for displaying courage.

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โ€œWe are ruled by mental patientsโ€. One of the best lines ever written. Thank you, Mr. Carrell, for aptly stating the obvious.

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