Dear My Twin

 Dear My Twin, Last week, I didn't write much, as you know, and I've lost my rhythm a bit. It was a difficult week. At the end of the difficult week, we hung out with Jordan's parents, which was also: difficult.  One of the things that was difficult, was because Jordan has a LOT of religious trauma that is tied up with his parents, and the church environment he grew up in. So seeing them, and being in the same area and environment he grew up in, it brings up a lot of stuff that really hurts.  Church trauma ... is such a strange term, isn't it? It hurts to say it, I think. It's also scary to say it, because so frequently - and so quickly! - the response is "What are you talking about?" "That's not real!" "You're overreacting." "Don't be so dramatic."  It is deeply ingrained in us that Church is supposed   to be a good  place! Just like there is an almost genetic imperative, it seems, that your parents are supposed  ...

 Dear My Twin,  I think often, that the BIG issue with Christianity starts way back in the 3rd century. When Constantine decided that he needed a good luck charm to win a battle. So on the soldier's shields, he painted Christian crosses. They won the battle, Constantine converted, and then forcibly made Christianity the state state religion.  We all know the saying, "Power corrupts," and that has been true of Christianity as well. Married with political power, things have just continued to go south, past Antartica, and way off the planet. I'm not sure if south has meaning once you're off Earth, but wherever South is, off planet, it then kept going.  The schisms. The splits. That one time there were THREE popes and they all excommunicated each other.  Even the Pilgrims! Coming to America to practice their religion (by the way, other nations frame it differently. Instead of the pilgrims leaving to find "freedom for religion" they were leaving to "prac...