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Why traditional prayers can feel spiritually oppressive

Every time I try to pray the Lord's Prayer it feels like I'm asking some cosmic tyrant for permission to exist and I hate that feeling.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Conventional liturgical language reinforces unhealthy power dynamics that violate authentic spiritual relationship.

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