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Organized religion / patriarchal church

Sticks and Stones

February 2, 2007
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Sticks and stones may break my bones,
But words will never hurt me.”

Not so.

… neg­a­tive and dis­rup­tive spirit …”

That’s some heavy label to attempt to hang on another human being.

Whew.

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January 13, 2007

I started this blog 1 with the title “Recov­er­ing Lutheran: Here I Stand” as a way of assist­ing me in my recov­ery from life­long Lutheranism. Actu­ally, I also needed to recover from life­long Protes­tantism, vol­un­teerism, and church mem­ber­ship as a gen­er­al­ized prin­ci­ple. Why I needed to recover is one of the top­ics explored here. I donated lit­er­ally thou­sands and thou­sands of […]

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