Paul's Passing Thoughts

Since I don’t have a test tomorrow, and the test on Wednesday does not look exceedingly difficult, I will take some time to do something I miss very much; writing. When I decided to come out of retirement to do nursing, I wanted to work at something that would teach me more about life. Nursing, whether STNA, MAC, LPN, or RN, does that. This is important to me because half of my life was wasted on church which teaches you very little about life. Actually, nothing about life.

So, while studying Parkinson’s disease medications this morning, I stumbled upon a blog authored by someone who has Parkinson’s as an encouragement and information source for other victims of the disease. I read what was being shared in the comment sections of each article, and it occurred to me in a way that was as subtle as someone throwing a brick through a picture window…

…these are true victims.

In contrast, nothing is more annoying than any given spiritual abuse blog, also known as “discernment blogs,” which while reading, is like listening to 100 alley cats in heat screaming against a full moon at night. I have an exercise for you: go to Wartburg Watch .com and read the articles and comments there, and then run over to the aforementioned blog and do the same; if you have ever taken the WW seriously up to that point, take one gram of Shame (generic: pathetic) and call me in the morning.

I am a “spiritual abuse survivor.” And we are all the same. We are NOT victims. Some awful disease did not come to visit us uninvited. We are all guilty of the same things. We were not paying attention. We were not thinking for ourselves. While deeming ourselves more aware than the elderly who are often an easy target for scammers, our degree of un-self-awareness could not even hold a candle for Dementia.

And we are also guilty of the biggest thing at one time or another; thinking we could/can save the church. I wrote “The Truth About New Calvinism” in my personal effort towards that fool’s errand. The church cannot be saved. And by the way, there aren’t any victims among those that proudly proclaim they are totally depraved sinners saved by grace. There is no justice in that theology past going to hell. All justice stops at the door of hell in that reality.

So, please stop whining, grow up, own the fact that you are/were a lazy thinker, and stop wasting your life.

paul