[Magdalen] She's leaving church

[Susan Hagen]

Dear Molly,
I do understand.  I pray that you that you will find new paths with heart,
new places of refreshment, new healthy relationships and new calls for you
many gifts.  Bessings on your way forward.

Susan

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:39 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




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