{"id":2528,"date":"2013-06-21T09:59:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T13:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2013-06-21T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T13:59:51","slug":"why-im-canceling-my-subscription-to-spirituality-health-magazine-i-hope-you-will-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/uncategorized\/why-im-canceling-my-subscription-to-spirituality-health-magazine-i-hope-you-will-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m canceling my subscription to Spirituality &#038; Health magazine. I hope you will too."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Here&#8217;s the Letter to the Editor I fired off to <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritualityhealth.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spirituality &amp; Health<\/a> this morning. I think it pretty much says it all. (A special thank you to my friend Jeanne G. for inspiring me to speak up on this.)&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To the editors,<\/p>\n<p>I recently subscribed to Spirituality &amp; Health. I was so excited to get my first issue (May\/June 2013) &#8212; until I opened it up to the Rabbi Shapiro piece and was stunned to see wildly inaccurate and incredibly offensive statements regarding my Catholic Christian faith. I was so upset I almost called immediately to cancel my subscription, but I tried to let it go, assuming (hoping) it was an isolated incident. I have to admit, however, that I could not read the rest of the issue because I was so turned off by what I&#8217;d seen up to that point.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Then the July\/August issue arrived. Well, I&#8217;m sure you won&#8217;t be surprised to know that I was beyond stunned this time. The anti-Catholic bias wasn&#8217;t even hidden, just right out there again and again. (Too many places to list individually, but we can start with &#8220;In Good Faith&#8221; and &#8220;Sacred Sex.&#8221;) I would like a refund of my remaining subscription since I purchased this product under false advertising. I thought it was a magazine open to all spirituality and health, intent on bringing people of all faiths &#8212; or no faith &#8212; together in a positive way. I didn&#8217;t realize there was an agenda at work here, one that is actively trying to turn people against the Catholic faith.<\/p>\n<p>I find it so sad and frustrating that a magazine that purports to be all about peace and love and tolerance is so filled with divisiveness and hatred and outright lies. I wear a cross around my neck and mala beads around the wrist. I sit in church on Sundays and do downward dog in yoga class three mornings a week. I love and respect my atheist friends and my Jewish friends and my Muslim friends and my Buddhist friends (you get the idea) just as much as I love and respect my Christian and\/or Catholic friends. But that is the heart of Christianity &#8212; to love my neighbors as myself and to treat others as I would want to be treated. The editors and writers at your magazine would do well to take a few lessons from the Catholic Christians you denigrate with such regularity.<\/p>\n<p>Please cancel my subscription immediately and refund my money. I would like to put it toward a subscription for a Catholic publication or charity. And I will be asking my family members and friends &#8212; and the readers of my blog &#8212; who might subscribe to your magazine to cancel their subscriptions as well.<\/p>\n<p>Mary DeTurris Poust<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the Letter to the Editor I fired off to Spirituality &amp; Health this morning. 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