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Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 3:30

Who?

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What thing have you let go of? And if you feel like sharing? If not, I totally get it. I just wanted to put it out there. Maybe you'll catch it. Maybe you won't. I-M-P-K. I'm out and have an amazing evening

#past #present #growth

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Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 4:59
That some kind of vancular man up there in the clouds, out of the goodness of his heart, created Earth, me, the universe, everything. So I used to believe that there was a God out there who was omnipotent, who knew everything and was extraordinarily powerful. I used to believe that transubstantiation took place that on the altar of a Roman Catholic Mass. The wafer bread and wine was miraculously turned into the body and blood of Jesus Christ. And I used to believe that
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Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 2:12

We have the power to choose! @omaniblog

But listening to you made me realize something that I always know is that when you are a believer and believe in some of the things you mentioned, like transubstantiation and omnipotence, how it could really sound like a Marvel movie, right? Our beliefs can sound like a comic book, and I can get it. Maybe you're not trying to be, like, humorous, but I found a lightness in the way you were retelling what you used to believe
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Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 5:00
But he also in some senses, shared the divineness. He was a God too, basically. And then there I believe that there was a third force called the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit. And there were three parts in a God in God. And there was only one God and all the yes, I remember. I used to believe that everybody who wasn't a Roman Catholic. Well, everybody who wasn't a Christian would be lucky if they got into heaven
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Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 1:47
Oh, you know, I better not say much more about on this because I'm really cringing, particularly about the idea that I once believed. I hope I didn't believe this too strong that the Jews ought to be forgiven. I mean, I just want to stress that I abandoned this belief must have been by about the age of 16 or 17. But unfortunately, we only had one Jewish family in Limerick. That's another story
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Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 1:07

Thank you Paul for Your candor.

We are products of our environment until we learn and choose differently. And I think the main point of what you're sharing is that you chose differently. I think that's more than okay to talk about, because there are a lot of us out here who are still believing things that are dangerous to other people, causing people their lives. And they need to make a different choice, right? Yeah. So thank you for sharing again and have a good day. Afternoon. I checked
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@rafaelreyesiii
Process Imagining
@rafaelreyesiii · 4:53
This idea of getting out of this exclusivizing religion is so I mean, to break away from that is powerful and to really think along a more pluralistic mindset is where my heart is at. And that's very different than what I was before. I do think it was because of my divorce when I went from being a part of that group to them becoming a statistic and marginalized from that group. And ever since then, I've had a very different take not only on religion but on the world itself
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