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I always heard the freedom in the gospel and it always baffled me when I ended up in a religious culture that manufactured chains.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a cruel trick:<\/p>\n

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religion offers us freedom<\/li>\n
we join to get free<\/li>\n
the religion, through rules, regulations and expectations, binds us in chains<\/li>\n
start over: the religion offers courses in getting free from bondage<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
I remember singing beautiful worship songs about \u201cloose these chains\u201d or \u201cset me free\u201d, and the whole while \u00a0I was singing it was the religious bondage I wanted freedom from.<\/p>\n
Well, I finally did it. All by myself. No help from anyone else but me! I made the step for my own freedom. It was probably the scariest thing I\u2019ve ever done. But I\u2019m free, free, free at last!<\/p>\n
(This cartoon was inspired by some graffiti I saw on a brick wall of a huge monster eating trees and shitting houses and industrial buildings, obviously critiquing our destroying the environment for development. I don\u2019t know who the artist is, but I wanted to give credit.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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