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Fully Disvested
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Date: October 18, 2014 09:07PM
I am a male.
Let's say that I am married and my spouse is a habitual liar. She never tells me the entire truth but constantly shades the truth and downright lies in order to protect her unsavory behavior and to exercise control over me. Furthermore, she regularly demands a good portion of my income but offers no accounting for how she spends it. She hurts me and others that I love in innumerable ways. Of course, she denies all wrongdoing and insists she is the perfect spouse and the only one who could make me happy.
Would you remain married to such a person?
Well, the church is an awful lot like the fictional spouse that I was referring to.
If I allow myself to be consistently lied to, robbed, and emotionally abused but do nothing about it, I lose all respect for myself as a human being.
And a healthy self-esteem is a critical component to happiness.
Do you understand why I can no longer participate in this church?