I was taught this is Christ coming from the altar in a piece of bread and a glass of wine.
What does it mean to be spiritual?
ME IN MY NOTES: I JUST GOT AN IDEA: TOM DOYLE SHOULD START DOING STANDUP COMEDY
DOYLE HIGHLIGHTS CONT’D:
If they're lying about one thing, it’s likely they're lying about a lot of other things.
What I was worshiping was some other human being’s concept of God. I was being told I gotta believe this.
But let me tell you, God or a higher power, or whoever, gave us a brain to think to use, not to be atrophied when we go into church. The winos on South State Street have just as much insight as the Pope.
BURST OF APPLAUSE
DOYLE, CONT’D.
I had to laugh when they closed purgatory last year.
Don’t be told by anybody else how we communicate with whatever that higher power is.
But from the sex abuse there’s a toxic guilt: What do we do with the rage, that goes with the emptiness because of what's been stolen from us.
At the same time it’s a painful and curing process.
You have to confront the fear.
Now I’ve been accused of being a dissenter. I had to deal with that fear.
We have to remember, the church is a structure and it’s okay to think of it with enmity and anger. But real church is people connecting with a bond of love, not a bond of a dollar bill.
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