Bye!

[dayhiker]

mj -- I can relate to wearing a mask. I did it for many years and some how it didn't feel Christian to wear a mask, but I was also certian if I took the mask off that other Christians wouldn't accept me.
When I was going thru my divorce I took the mask off. After all I was already experiencing on of the biggest failures a Christian can experience. Why not show the complete me. The church did better than I thought they would. Yet they were in a mode where they thought the 4 or 5 things they had asked me to do and I agreed to do would make me into what was close to an asexual man. Well, I'd tried that, it didn't work! Plus I was convinced by then that God didn't make me asexual. So try to be what they were asking me was to deny who God created me to be.
Well, I'm not at the end of the journey yet. I'm still experiencing God and his creation and collecting data as I go. With understanding will come more wisdom and walk walking with God will come greater understanding of what God is teaching me. Praise God. But I know God doesn't want me to put the mask back on. I don't want to either.

That third thing is the real bug-bear. Especially within Christian circles. We have to spend so much time wearing a mask because we don't dare to reveal what's real to our fellow Christians--- they can't stand who we really are! Truth, they're the same or worse, but don't you DARE shake the carefully crafted mask, after all they face the same problem: They can't dare to be real or you won't like them/will think they're not real Christians/ will see that they're flawed/whatever spooks they're afraid you'll find in their closets.

 

[TravelerFarAwayFromHome]

Moderators are not always perfect

they do abuse their power as well

if that is the case, don't be afraid to take it up with people above them

if you have to take it to the CEO of the forum, then so be it.

they should not be allowed to get away with it