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Hey can I tweet about the time I was in my late teens and looking for help in figuring out being gay and a spiritual mentor sent me to a priest who was known to be a gifted healer?
anyway I got to his house and sat in this armchair and he started praying, holding his hands out towards me and going "ashantityashantityashantityashantityashantityashantity" which was supposed to be tongues I guess
he did this for a while and then he said we were going to do a prayer of visualization or something so he had me close my eyes
he asked me to picture myself as a single sperm, my father& #39;s sperm
then I was to hold out my hands and cup them around this single precious father& #39;s sperm, just hold it in love and light and healing
then he stood up over me while I was doing this and started the ashantityashantityashantityashantityashantity again
I opened my eyes because this was freaking me out and looked at his face and he was making a little frowny face
then he saw me looking at him and was like "it seems like you might be resisting the action of the spirit; can you try not to do that"
then he saw me looking at him and was like "it seems like you might be resisting the action of the spirit; can you try not to do that"
I said "I& #39;m not sure"
Anyway he got me to try the Visualization thing again but I had checked out mentally and was like "I don& #39;t care if this works, I& #39;m just not going to do that" so he told me I was resisting again and I left
That& #39;s the end of the story, I don& #39;t have any conclusion except that when I think of it I think I& #39;d like to murder that priest
Hey imagine if you& #39;re a Catholic teen and you go to someone you trust as a Catholic authority and then they put you through this weird combination of occultism, victim-blaming, and spiritual abuse
And then you find the Gays and they tell you "love yourself, you& #39;re wonderful"
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And then you find the Gays and they tell you "love yourself, you& #39;re wonderful"
luckily I had been inoculated against the Gays, so at that point I had the choice of either spiritual abuse or nothing
