today was a pretty spiritual day, I attended Kidane Mihert Ethiopian Orthodox Church at 5:00 AM only to then head out to other local churches. To my great consternation, almost all of the churches were closed until I drove by a Catholic church. I saw a bunch of people walking in and my first thought was “hell no” because Catholocism is the one sect that I do not abide.
I decided to disregard my reservations and attended mass around 10:00 AM at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Falls Church, VA. As I walked in, I met a priest named Father Anthony and we shared a conversation, he a “white” Catholic and I a brown Orthodox Christian. At that exact moment, it hit me, religion has become co-opted by the spirit of the devil as we disavow what Yeshua taught us and condemn one another instead of loving each other as brothers and sisters.
I repented at the Catholic church and asked for forgiveness because our Father who is in heaven sees everything and His spirit is omnipresent. That is when another revelation hit me, my anger towards churches accepting money in churches—a beef I’ve harbored since I was a child—is too puritanical given that we live in a broken world...continued...
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