Hi John!

I hope this letter finds you well.

Maybe you might have saved this to read on your Saturday morning with a cup of coffee or tea in your comfy chair while you peruse my cartoons and art that went out this week.

But I also have an important announcement that I'm very excited about.

Stay tuned!

DAD JOKE OF THE WEEK

I asked the surgeon if I could administer my own anaesthetic.

He said, "Sure, knock yourself out!"

CARTOON OF THE WEEK

I couldn't believe the hate I got over this cartoon.
Whenever I say love is more important than beliefs, the fundies lose it.
It looked like someone was sending all their faithful monkeys over to swarm my account with their fundamentalist preaching.
I finally had to turn off the comments and block a whack of people.
Just goes to show that love always faces bullying.

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POST OF THE WEEK

THE INTENSITY OF YOUR DECONSTRUCTION

What I’ve noticed from my own life and by observing the lives of all the people I’ve been involved with in their deconstruction, is that…

The harder you believed, the harder you deconstruct.
The harder you were involved in the church, the harder you deconstruct.
The harder you were involved, the harder you deconstruct.
The harder you were invested, the harder you deconstruct.

This is a generalization. But it’s pretty accurate. You can probably attest to it.

I do know some people who simply walked away and overnight said, “I’m done!” and that was it.

But for others, including myself, it takes a long time to figure out how to integrate all of that into our story. How to make sense of it. How to own it.

It takes a long time for some of us to figure out how to acknowledge our roots without letting them determine us.

It takes a while to figure out how to be truly ourselves without being controlled or even shaped by religion.

The point is: Let’s be gracious with ourselves. We’ve got this!

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PRINTS OF THE WEEK

MY NEW TEXT-BASED INSPIRATION PRINTS

We created 9 new text-based inspirational prints around the concept of love.

They're really cool. Like, "Seen. Accepted. Loved." Or, "Love is an art and you're the artist!" Or, "In this house we love without the fine print!" Or, "Feel so you can Heal!" And more!

JUST FOR YOU! Use coupon "VDAY20" for 20% off any of the prints in this collection. This deal is only for recipients of this letter. Good until Valentine's Day.

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Exciting News of the Week!

MY NEW BOOK, "Flip It Like This!"

It's an exciting time for me. I already have 9 books published.

Eight of them I self-published. One of them, "Questions are the Answer", is by a publisher. This one is by a publisher too, Broadleaf Books.

It's about 125 of nakedpastor's most cherished cartoons from my cartooning career so far. Plus 12 you've never seen before.

It's coming out in a few months, but you can pre-order it HERE.

I couldn't do this without the support of people like you who appreciate my work.

So... thank you!

And please... go pre-order now! It would mean so much to me, and I know you're going to enjoy it.

CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER!

PEACE OF MIND

Back in 2009, after years... even decades... of theological anguish, I finally found peace of mind.

Thirteen years later and that peace of mind remains.

It's not that theology doesn't mean anything to me or I don't think it has any value. It's just that I don't care anymore. I don't mean I don't care in a flippant, careless, or pejorative way. It's more that I am no longer spiritually or emotionally invested in it anymore. It doesn't preoccupy me or keep me up at night.

It's not where the peace is found!

As more and more people follow my work, the more I attract haters who come on my accounts to threaten, condemn, preach, and demand the conversion of everyone there to the Baptist, Catholic, Orthodox, or Lutheran Church, etcetera, or to stop being so stupid and just become an atheist already.

It's exhausting. And perplexing. Because that's something I never would have done and never did and never will do.

I imagine it must require a lot of fear, anger, and bitterness to be so hateful under the guise of evangelism.

In the end, I feel sorry for them.

I got swarmed this week on one of my posts. Obviously they were sent en masse to harass us like the wicked witch's monkeys. It became overwhelming. I had to close comments for a while.

Sometimes I put them out of their misery and block them.

But my peace of my mind they will never disturb.

SUGGESTION OF THE WEEK

I have some wonderful original paintings still in my store. Just for the recipients of this letter I'm offering 10% off all of them. Use coupon "JUSTFORME10" at checkout. Go HERE to see them all and use your discount. Thank you so much!

A FINAL NOTE

Just knowing so many of you are in my corner and got my back really encourages me. I want to personally thank you for that.

Sending my love,

David

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