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Can Religion be Redeemed?
Is it even worth discussing?
For the busy people, let me shortcut it for you. No. Needs to be scrapped and reborn, basically.
Here’s what God said about it in Amos 5:
I hate, I despise your feasts,
and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
and the peace offerings of your fattened animals,
I will not look upon them.
Take away from me the noise of your songs;
to the melody of your harps I will not listen.
But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
I have to admit it.
I tried church. Again. I did this awhile back and wrote about it here.
I tried again a few months ago but left early when I realized what the message was about: “Life After LGBT [sic]”. Just no.
The show “Greenleaf” grabbed my attention a few weeks ago, and I binged it. Hard.
If you didn’t see it, it’s about a preacher’s daughter coming home to her father’s church after 20 years away. It’s warm, messy, real, dramatic, soapy, and toxic, and I couldn’t quit it.
As a preacher’s daughter myself (he just died in January, and I haven’t written about it yet), especially one who doesn’t attend…
