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Ya, sometimes this is how I feel. Little David with a pebble up against an ancient giant!<\/p>\n
You know, that church building represents religion, and I meet plenty of negative religion outside of church walls as well. In fact, some of the most ferociously religious people I\u2019ve met have been outside the church.<\/p>\n
The kind of religion I\u2019m up against is the kind that taunts and degrades people, attempts to control them, manipulates them and shames them, that limits rational thought, critical thinking and intellectual integrity, that demands blind adoration of empty leadership and unquestioning subservience.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the kind of religion that needs to come down!\u00a0I\u2019m still trying to find the perfect pebble perfectly placed.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ya, sometimes this is how I feel. Little David with a pebble up against an ancient giant! You know, that church building represents religion, and I meet plenty of negative religion outside of church walls as well. In fact, some of the most ferociously religious people I\u2019ve met have been outside the church. The kind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[533],"tags":[19,11,2786,603,722,27],"class_list":["post-12185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-cartoon","tag-church","tag-david_goliath","tag-david_hayward","tag-nakedpastor","tag-religion"],"yoast_head":"\n