I grew up believing the church and the people of god were the same. A god who lived somewhere out there and knew everything I did at all time and that in order to experience salvation it was necessary to be a Catholic.
I believed that we as clergy were different and we did have special powers. You were lay people and didn't have the fullness of truth.
I realize now spirituality is intensely personal and how we experience it is different from man to woman to man to woman,
Describes people flagellating, pouring salt in coffee, making themselves feel pain,
In ordinary society called psychosis in religion it’s spirituality
I WOKE UP
The waking process was long and painful
But the end result I can tell you now is unbelievable peace and serenity
APPLAUSE
Most of us have been taught to believe without question.
Magical thinking and superstition about our religious practices
All we need do to see something just as weird if not weirder is look at voodoo and medicine men in Africa
Magical thinking, and I believed in it.
Forgiveness doesn't mean you put it aside and act as if it didn't happen and treat the guy as your friend, that is absolute idiocy.
The way to forgive is to forgive ourselves for allowing it to happen and allowing it to eat us alive.
You no longer obsess on what he did to me.
If he gets punished, fine, but he doesn't own me anymore.
Going back over my notes from Doyle's speech now I realize a lot of it is in the delivery and the timing. Doyle has a real gift and I wish he’d develop it, get out from under cross examination from church attorneys and start spewing all this out on national television. He could easily fill an HBO Comedy Special.
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