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Originally Posted by OBW
There is a reason that you and many others put the word in quotes. True spirituality is one that lives a normal life with Christ as the center. Pseudo spirituality is one that makes everything abnormal but with religious overtones so that the truth of the life lived is masked.
I am not saying that anyone avoids all wearing of masks. But at least we do not hide our failures behind a façade of faux spirituality.
Faux, pseudo spirituality is to take a filthy cup and guild the outside with brass and rhinestones, calling it gold and diamonds — all while ignoring the festering filth on the inside.
And this faux persona is created both to hide the failings of the leadership and to trap the followers into thinking that this faux spirituality is real. (Reminds me of a shop in Six Flags that was full of "genuine simulated" fur items.) Now otherwise honest and God-fearing people are fooled into living a lie in the name of spirituality.
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For those heavily involved in the LC, this idea of spirituality seems very real. I know that, I was there at one point. I was really convinced that if I dressed a certain way, avoided places like the movies, and talked a certain way, it was really going to get me somewhere. Eventually, I came to realize that after doing all that, I had absolutely nothing to show for it. It was all an act.