Today's movie is Don't Look Up, the one where a comet is going to destroy the planet and Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio are astronomers trying to convince the world to do something and it's basically every nightmare I've ever had strung together across two hours?

I think I actually did manage to breed house mice disinterested in peanut butter

Popcorn is working well. They're interested in the smelly bag type.

"Your kids are not leaving the church because you didn't train them enough. Your kids are leaving the church because you trained them well enough to develop a sense for truth and justice."

"You let them read the words of Jesus, and they got it. And they've recognized that the church doesn't seem to be interested in those words."

"They're not leaving because they don't know the truth; they're leaving because they do."

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If you look around you can find a long version talking about how white evangelical churches encourage racism, and this clip also shares the thought that people think you leave the church for something outside of it, and why that's wrong.

I think those of us who have left Christian evangelicalism have usually gone through a long, heartbreaking process of watching it diminish, depending on circumstances...from something holy and unquestionable, to something holy but mismanaged by well-meaning people that do their best, to something that's flawed but on balance good, to something fundamentally flawed but salvageable, and sometimes slipping all the way down to a vehicle which recites decent values but primarily does harm.

At some point along that slide, you look at yourself and what YOU'RE doing. And maybe you're doing missionary work or facilitating adoption but you learn how they're harmful and find yourself trying to defend something you know is wrong instead of seeking to stop it. Maybe you're covering up something that should have been public. Maybe you're watching people being pushed away from what you know they need to live.

Maybe you're being slightly dishonest about the things you know to evangelize more effectively.

Maybe you're adding up pros and cons on your fingers, trying to convince yourself that the church is better than nothing. And then you start thinking... that kind of reasoning has no business in this

If it were right, it would FEEL right. If it were a force for good it would FEEL good. You'd be proud to share it. You wouldn't be watching it harm people and doing NOTHING to help them heal.

And then one day where your faith in the church should be, there's just dust.

Please stop sharing that article about clinical burnout without warnings, or at least tack on some of the specialist discussion about the expectations mismatch between recovering your true original capacity vs. recovering your ability to go beyond that capacity to the extreme degree that caused the burnout episode.

It's not "you may never again be able to work to the best of your abilities." It's "you may never again be successfully exploited to the unsafe degree that led you to believe your abilities were limitless."

hey can anyone recommend a movie that's extremely colorful (visually, not metaphorically)