What was said to me was hurtful, cold, loathsome, boorish and insensitive.
How could these people say such things to me – I was in a dark place –
without thinking twice?
To this day I have had to continue reminding myself that snapping on these
people (I seriously wanted to) would have been out of character and
inappropriate. I would have stooped to their level of insolence, and rued it
afterwards. It has been four years, and I have kept my distance from the
church.
If churchgoers could hear the rubbish that comes out of their collective
mouth…
I Can Hear
My church experience was not a good one. When churchgoers say, “No two
churches are the same,” I laugh sneeringly. Churches are the same,
attended by people who are willing to believe in a higher power that cannot
be proven true. Oh how they have duped themselves! These people are loud
about their beliefs, but are irked when their beliefs are questioned. Indeed,
churchgoers have the freedom to believe what they want, as I have the
freedom to mock and criticize their beliefs. Based on experience alone,
church is for the deaf. Thankfully, I can hear.
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