After 32 years of believing parables and red letters I've decided the only good use for a Bible is to build a roaring fire.
32 years of oppression and guilt. 32 years of “Do it because the Bible says to“...even if it's contrary to itself. 32 years of Old Testament vs. New Testament. 32 years of Post-tribulation or Pre-tribulation. 32 years of listening to Pastors of many different religions wield the words of the Bible like a firearm. 32 years of merry CHRISTmas. 32 years of showy musical spectacles. 32 years of Pastors weeping and begging for forgiveness for the hooker, hustler, altar boy, steeling, lying, cheating, or squandering. 32 years of sly and not so sly racism using the Word as a foundation. 32 years of conditional love. 32 years of believe or you will burn in hell. 32 years of "I was raised in church". 32 years of "give it to God". 32 years of Homosexuals are less than human, disgusting, perverted, hell-bound sinners. 32 years of Ted Haggards and secretly gay music ministers and parishioners. 32 years of the Bible is infallible, though it was written by those who are fallible. 32 years of witnessing on Wednesday and bad-mouthing Mormons on Sunday. 32 years of “mixed babies end up looking look like yellow chickens“. 32 years of never seeing anyone be able to live up to anything in the Bible. 32 years of watching the Tammy Fayes, the Jim Bakers, the Jimmy Swaggarts, and the Robert Tiltons of the world. 32 years of the Bible Belt. 32 years mindless adherence to an ideal that fails time and again. 32 years was 32 years too long.
It is finished.
Damned if I do, damned if I don't.
Stay Free!
