[Magdalen] She's leaving church

[Catharine Phillips]

Ah Molly,
A new chapter. Blessings on your continuing journey.

Catharine

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:

> Dear pubbies,
>
> Last night I posted this on Facebook:
>
> "I think I am done with religion.  Not with God, of course, never with
> God.  But with church (except for friends), with intellectual theology, and
> with the Future of Christianity, I think I am done."
>
> I realized that my church (not necessarily the individuals but the
> church-geist) promulgates the dysfunctional patterns that mis-shaped my own
> soul's formation:  triangulation, resentments, scapegoating,
> psychopatholigizing, the "spiritual bypass".  This has become blindingly
> obvious in the last few weeks.  BTDT, not doing that again.
>
> I need to get out for my soul's safety and well-being, just as 40-years
> ago I had to turn my back on my family and walk away, for my own survival.
> I am, in a sense, grieving history as I repeat the most health-bound
> decision I could make.
>
> I also find myself increasingly irritated by church's narcissism, whether
> it's the idolatry of liturgy or preoccupation with the past or earnest
> navel-gazing. Fewgawdsake, church, get over yourself!
>
> I need to find God.  And right now, I am living in Psalm 131.
>
> I'll show up on the odd Sunday morning for social reasons, but my soul has
> left the building,
>
> Joining the company of the "dones",
> Molly
>
> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
> other way. -- Mark Twain




-- 
*Catharine Phillips, MA, MDiv, CADC*


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