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spiritual undercover agent
Jun. 16th, 2019 05:35 pm[ polishing and expanding on this thread ]
Now let me be an annoying queer Catholic for five minutes.
Like every Sunday, I went to mass this morning. Like every Sunday, I sang in the choir and I followed the celebration and I prayed as best as I could, which is something that doesn't come easily to me for a number of reasons, but I still do because that's what I believe in. Then, during the sermon, the priest said something along the lines: "If people these days live as if God was unimportant, it's all society's fault".
In context, it sounded like 'the people in this church at this moment are the only people who care about God' and 'whatever are we gonna do about those sinners who don't go to church on Sundays?' and also 'we're not part of society because we're the Church of God'.
Try identifying as someone that your people famously consider a one-way ticket to Hell. You're sitting among them, listening to that same sermon, singing in the choir next to them, and they don't know about that part of you. Would they be as happy and welcoming as they are, if they knew?
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Now let me be an annoying queer Catholic for five minutes.
Like every Sunday, I went to mass this morning. Like every Sunday, I sang in the choir and I followed the celebration and I prayed as best as I could, which is something that doesn't come easily to me for a number of reasons, but I still do because that's what I believe in. Then, during the sermon, the priest said something along the lines: "If people these days live as if God was unimportant, it's all society's fault".
In context, it sounded like 'the people in this church at this moment are the only people who care about God' and 'whatever are we gonna do about those sinners who don't go to church on Sundays?' and also 'we're not part of society because we're the Church of God'.
Try identifying as someone that your people famously consider a one-way ticket to Hell. You're sitting among them, listening to that same sermon, singing in the choir next to them, and they don't know about that part of you. Would they be as happy and welcoming as they are, if they knew?
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