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Eleanor Tomczyk

Author of Monsters' Throwdown

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How the Hell Did I End Up Here? Publications
192 pages
$14.99
ISBN: 978-1511695046

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Fleeing Oz

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Eleanor’s Journal—New Year’s Resolution 2014

Dear Jesus:  

I was madly in love with a rock once, but the rock screwed me over.   I know I may be stepping over divine boundaries here, but before you are tempted to smack me upside my head, please hear my accusations against the rock I once loved, and who you said would love me—just as I am.  

She claimed to be a safe haven for the down-trodden and the lost—stable ground to stand on.

She seduced me with the promises that she was a bastion of integrity.

And she swore her name meant love.

Well . . . she lied!

It took me over a decade to untangle my body and my psyche from her web of lies, but it is done.  I plan to write an announcement and publish it on Facebook:

“I, Eleanor Tomczyk, do hereby divorce my former lover—the Christian Church.

Don’t get me wrong:  I still ‘loves me some Jesus,’ but the right-wing, homophobic, anti-poor, anti-feminist, alarmingly racist, sometimes child-molesting, anti-science, hypocritical, power-hungry, Bible literalists, and gun-toting wing of Christianity that I’ve been, heretofore, a part of for decades—well, I’m dumping her.

I’m letting go!

And in case other Christians declare that this puts me on a fast track to Hell—well, so be it.  I’ll take my chances with God and let him be the judge. At least I’ll be living a fully authentic life for the first time in over forty years.

Signed: Eleanor Tomczyk—officially fleeing Oz.”

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