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David Gottfried's avatar

I became markedly alienated from my faith years ago, and the sweeteners that faith sometimes offers are, on closer inspection, chimerical and false.

For example, in this essay, I show that Mary Magdalene is not nearly as merciful as Christians pretend it is.

https://open.substack.com/pub/davidgottfried/p/mary-magdalene-salvation-on-a-suckers?r=87ef5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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MandyP12's avatar

Good review, I might have to check it out. As a millennial, I should have been the target demographic for church camp, but was inoculated against it by two horrible experiences at church camp in late elementary school and early middle school. (Turns out being the weird kid at church camp who doesn’t fit in makes you a target!) I can definitely see and resonate with church camp being for a very specific type of kid, so in addition to white and straight I would add some layer of “socially normal.” Not sure what the right descriptor is exactly.

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