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Saturday, March 8, 2008

Confessions as posted on evangelical church-run Web sites, mysecret.tv and ivescrewedup.com:

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I am 14 years old, and I think I am severely depressed. It's been going on for a while now and started after the tragic death of one of my close friends. It's all gone downhill from there. I am so afraid to tell anyone, especially my mom.

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I'm going through the worst patch of my life. I am struggling with self harming, bulimia and anorexia but no one has even noticed.

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Once again I found myself giving into the temptation of the sexual sin of homosexuality desires on the internet by getting involved in ungodly conversations with others via the internet knowing that it was wrong but yet wanting to satisfy the unsatiable [sic] feeling of my fleshly desires.

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For the past few years i've struggled with pornography and with lustful actions and passion. i just want to confess these things to the Lord and to my brothers and sisters in Christ.

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my friend and i used to skip school and go shoplifting at antique stores.

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My mother died recently, I wept at her funeral but if the truth be told she was a nasty, jealous, piece of work.