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Frank's avatar

Thank you Walter. Your writings are truly inspiring. As a child I was raised as a catholic but at age 15 I decided that organized religion was completely corrupt and misguided. Today I practice in my grandmother’s indigenous beliefs and I believe that it has helped me to understand humanity and the natural world and its other human beings. We live in a world where life is short. Hatefulness and evil in our hearts robs us of the beauty that surrounds us.

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Thank you, Walter! You have the uncanny ability to say things that I have fumed about to myself all my female life. As a neglected child, I used churches as an escape, and every one of them turned out to be a complete bullshit patriarchal mindfuck. Catholics and Baptists were the most horrible. The Catholics humiliated me because I was too poor to tithe in Sunday School. The Catholics were also the sexual abusers of my beloved late brother, Howard. The white Anacostia Baptist preacher shrieked and wailed out his sermons, demanding tearfully that "not everyone's eyes were closed!!!". The only church that I ever enjoyed and felt ok in was the tiny Black church in a small shack-like home where the singing and physical movement presented a joy that seemed to exist despite the surreal racism and bigotry of the 60's. To this day, I love Black gospel music.

Keep up your incredible good work and observations, Walter, and protect your family from the Elmer Gantry's.

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