Every now and then I read something and think back on my Lutheran Vacation Bible School days with my mom in charge of our truly amazing puppet shows, and fruit punch and snacks in the basement, and I reflect on just how *radical* the differences between Christian sects can be
Radical in multiple senses

A lot about my childhood was messed up—some of it for reasons that were really no one’s fault—but I genuinely feel that I majorly lucked out in the religion department
I mean, they never put us through any form of evangelism training either, or at least if they did it was so lackadaisical that it made absolutely no impression on me
There are highly problematic through-lines that most if not all Christian sects and denominations share, but I wish more people understood just how wildly diverse a religion it is and how many of us disagree vehemently on a tremendous number of things.
That wild diversity has, among other things, caused more than a few massively stupid wars, so

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Every now and then it’s good for my mental health to take a few minutes and watch this a couple times
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I’m trying very hard to think of one but all the ones I’m coming up with are subjective?

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I am accumulating ever deeper and deeper feelings of existential horror and disgust for anyone who looks around at everything and says “yeah, on the whole this all seems okay”.
And I’m finding “people are busy and don’t pay much attention to anything outside their immediate orbit” a less and less compelling excuse.
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