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Evangelicals are Fucking Awesome.
A fork in the road
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15 responses to “A fork in the road”
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Please keep telling your story.
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Would you be willing to make your posts available by subscription only? I don’t want you to put yourself in danger, physically, emotionally, or psychologically, so if that’s the case, you choose you! If, however, there is an option for subscribers—I would be happy to do that. 😊
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Dave, I’ve commented a few times now. I think you’re awesome, man, and I want to call you my brother without being a cheesy Christian about it. You have a lot of courage to do this project, and I have also been completely cast out of my community.
If you feel like it, stay connected with me somehow. My name on Facebook/IGis Jeremy Klipsch.
Email: jeremyklipsch@gmail.com
I never learned what your health condition is, but I research degenerative diseases, like MS, Parkinson’s, etc. If my work can benefit you in any, then I definitely want to. My mom suffered from the year I was born.. I can help in other ways too bro. You’re seriously like my big brother man, I can’t explain it. It hurts to know you are hurting. I grew up with you dude. Don’t burn out, don’t fade away. Reach out, please.
Nothing but respect to you and your life and career dear dude.
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I hate to see this go, I believe there is so much more that could be done here. But I won’t ask you to violate your safety. Just know you still got this community here.
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I know I haven’t kept up with posts recently. Life over here has been on the rough side.
But this has been one of the most meaningful things I’ve ever read. I’m sad to see it go. Of course, I don’t know what’s going on, and your safety is more important. But I want you to know how much this meant to me. It’s easy for me to say, though, because I’m just a reader. Not the one who has had to lay myself on the line for this project.
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Thank you, Dave. For everything, from your fantastic performances in AIO to everything you’ve posted now and everything in between. It’s all affected me (positively) on so many levels it would take too long to list them all. Thank you for sticking around. Thank you for being here. Please keep yourself and your family safe first and foremost. I hope we can connect again someday.
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Oh do feel free to list some! I need all the encouragement I can get these days. Knowing how I impacted people helps me
Been feeling pretty low and that none of this mattered in the least.
If ya got kind words… my brain and soul need them 🙂
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ok well… I have been thinking about writing on here for months now. What can I say… I’m not a good writer., or speller! but you need to know how you have impacted me, So I am screwing up my courage as they say… I am blind… and have been from birth… I have been a lissenner of AIO from the early 90’s when I stumbled over it while actually spinning a radio dial! There’s nothing like turning a dial and tuning in a station… trying to get the best signal and turning the antenna just the right way to get rid of all the fuz so you can hear the song or program you are listening too. Radio drama is great! because you are building the pictures in your own mind, they are never wrong… and they look better than any screen be it 4K or whatever because it’s in your own mind! Dave… you helped bring that to life for me better than any tv show I tried to listen too!!!!! from hearing Jimmy on the plain, to imagination station adventures, to vacations, and more! I quickly became a fan! You were one of my childhood heroes man! and you still are to this day! I have used my screen reader to read every word of this blog until now! and I want to keep going! I don’t want it to stop. There is a lot I would like to say here but I talk much better than I write. I am a very out going person, but i have been afrade to put my thoughts out here because I am not a good writer. One thing I will say here. is that I have tried to look at this blog with an open mind as I have read it. and it took me through a lot of feelings I have never felt before. There is much more I would like to say… but let me close with this. I do care about you and everything you have been through! and you get 0 judgment from me. I’ll never forget that Saturday morning when i was 10 years old… tuning around the dial and finding AIO and becoming a Jimmy fan and how that changed my life. I wish I could talk with you… I could say more than I could ever write here… I will put my web site here in case you wish to contact me. Thank you for all that you have done… and thank you for sharing your story… and please keep going!!!!
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Let’s talk man. We can zoom. Or phone call. Thank you this means the word to me
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That would be awesome! shoot me a private E-mail and we can phone call if that’s cool with you.
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I was home sick today, clicked a link in a Reddit post, and have been glued to the screen for literally the last twelve hours. Your story is horrific, but your writing is amazing and I am emotionally wrung out just reading about what you went through.
When my kids were small, they loved Adventures in Odyssey–on the radio, and eventually a large supply of CDs from a well-meaning grandma–and although I didn’t listen much, I was a Good Evangelical Wife and Mother who always tried to do the Right Thing, and I was happy that they had something besides all that godless TV to fuel their imaginations.
I have been moving away from fundamentalism for years, but 2016 was a turning point, and 2020/2021 even more so. I am sad, lonely about the loss of community, angry that the people–not only the church leaders, but my family members–that I loved and respected and looked up to have sold out what they claim to believe, and they can’t seem to see it at all. You said it in one of your Exodus posts: did we leave? Or did they leave us?
My kids are even angrier than I am, because they are both disabled, and they have been fucked up (you’re right, it is liberating) by a system that tells them if they haven’t been healed, it’s because they’re not right with God. They both still believe in God, to a greater or lesser degree (one believes but has notes, one wants to fight Him if He exists), but they both believe very strongly that following the red letters is what’s important whether He exists or not. I am more proud of them than I can express.
They both still agree that Adventures in Odyssey had a lot of good lessons in its earlier years, even though there’s some content that they disagree with now. They are able to remember the positive lessons and the fun and imagination, and view the rest with a critical lens. Thank you so much for your part in their childhood entertainment, and rest assured that there’s at least two dedicated fans who did not end up wearing red hats.
I hope that at some point you’re able to come back and finish your story. It is incredibly powerful as is, but you deserve to be able to polish it off in the way that you envisioned.
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Damn you read the whole thing in one sitting?!? WOW
Im impressed even I cant do that lol.
Thank you so much for this message and your encouraging words and for sharing your story with me.
Ive really been struggling to re-approach the blog after election. Just feel like “whats the point anymore”.
You words here provide much needed encouragement and Im grateful to you for every ounce of energy youve poured into your comment.
Welcome to the journey TJ so happy to have you along for the ride. And please give my best to any all Jimmy fans in your world 🙂
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I may be too optimistic, but I am hoping that as more and more hypocrisy is exposed, people will be looking around for answers, proof that they’re not alone, proof that some things are really very screwed up on a large scale and it’s not just them having a “bad spirit”. Your story could help provide that confirmation. The entire thing is a condemnation of all the systems we’re told never to question. When that one chapter ended with “I was sick, and you didn’t visit me”–that was a heck of a gut punch.
I don’t know if that’s enough to keep you pouring your guts out on the internet for anyone to see. And that’s fair if it’s not. Please prioritize your time and energy wherever it’s necessary for your physical and mental health. But if you’re able to do this, I think it will still have a purpose and an audience.
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Thank you for this perspective.
You’re the second person to articulate it this way to me. Which means its not an anomaly it’s a pattern!
And perhaps I should take the note.
I am grateful for your perspective and appreciate your encouragement. And have been meaning to put out a message to readers for weeks now.
Maybe this will give me the push I needed.
Grateful to you. ❤️
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