Leaning Towards Nowhere

Some keen observers claim that CRUDPEC (Christ's Reforming Unifying Diaconate of the Prebystery Episcopated Church) is a half-way house between religion and non-religion. For many of are members, our path of universal liberation from all distinctions is a way of escaping the pernicious dicotomy between those two alleged states. We do not deny either claim, because to even see a difference between the two would be the height of oppressive exclusivity!

My siblings, let me tell you how I found the presence of Christ/a here. I had been raised in a typically fundamentalist UCC parish. I was constantly bombarded with what I realized to be hurtful slogans: "Do not put a period where God puts a comma" (what harm is it to God/dess/es how I punctuate, and who are you to limit my use of such markers?) or "God is still speaking" (maintains the fundie error of affirming that godde is so distinct from anything else as to be saying anything, everything, or both.) Even the word "include" is oppressive! "Clude" is clearly from "close"! They mean to radically close everyone in! How is this any different from 19th century British Imperialism? Quite naturally, the sight of such horrors made me flee from all such religion. But what then? That is when I found CRUDPEC, and learned the joy of radical nondistinguishing. When I was recieved into their fellowship and made a bishop. Yes, while other have stumbled towards the priesthood of all believers, we hold to the bishophood of all. Truly of All, we even lay hands upon the very stones of our buildings and declare them bishops.

While I am so happy where I am, the call towards Nowhere still rings. Not my old crude desire for nonreligion. No, for the true undisitinguished Nothing, religionless religion. Nowhere fever. It calls me, but I do not know if I will ever be able enter. But if and until then, there is no shame to being Nothing outside of Nowhere...