TLDR: Congratulations on having a brain and being able to use it.
There have been times when I wished I was able to Believe. It would make life so much simpler if I could accept that some mysterious, invisible, omniscient, eternal being had a great game plan, I had a role to play in that, and all I had to do was follow a clear set of rules.
Unfortunately, I realised that was all BS a long time ago. I'm not sure when exactly I came to that conclusion, but I know it was at some point during my Junior High years when I attended a Seventh Day Adventist school, and was dragged to church every Saturday by my parents. During those years, the totally metaphorical, non-mystical light gradually dawned, and I came to realise that all the hard and fast rules and simple explanations of life and the world taught by the church were crap, the religious leaders were all in it for themselves in some way, and the true-believers were just looking for simple explanations they were capable of understanding, as well as a crutch to help get them through their miserable, decidedly un-blessed lives.
I did wonder if it was just the SDA church that was the problem, so I went through a phase of investigating other religions. But I came to the conclusion that all religions just sell slightly different brands of ancient BS, and religious leaders only differ in their degree of hypocrisy, self-delusion, their need to control other people and their general wickedness.
The vast majority of religious people are either wilfully ignorant or they're so dim that they're incapable of even beginning to understand how absurd and illogical their beliefs are. But there's truth in the old adage that ignorance is bliss, so many of them are very happy.
Wew, looks like you have been through some things.
By the very possibility of consciousness preceding material it is naive to conclude that religion is illogical.
Ironically calling religious people hypocritical and absurd without considering metaphysics and being unwilling to read about religions/mysticism makes your statements quite hypocritical and absurd.
Furthermore, the error in your thinking, I would like to point out, is that you haven't considered the function of religion, mainly in that it serves as a tool to guide people towards mysticism.
I don't mean to convert you into any sort of tradition but rather to stress the validity of religious tradition and exploration.
Peace out, and make up your mind
Don't. Be bound by a specific tradition but figure it out by yourself
IIN That I want to be religious, but can't?
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TLDR: Congratulations on having a brain and being able to use it.
There have been times when I wished I was able to Believe. It would make life so much simpler if I could accept that some mysterious, invisible, omniscient, eternal being had a great game plan, I had a role to play in that, and all I had to do was follow a clear set of rules.
Unfortunately, I realised that was all BS a long time ago. I'm not sure when exactly I came to that conclusion, but I know it was at some point during my Junior High years when I attended a Seventh Day Adventist school, and was dragged to church every Saturday by my parents. During those years, the totally metaphorical, non-mystical light gradually dawned, and I came to realise that all the hard and fast rules and simple explanations of life and the world taught by the church were crap, the religious leaders were all in it for themselves in some way, and the true-believers were just looking for simple explanations they were capable of understanding, as well as a crutch to help get them through their miserable, decidedly un-blessed lives.
I did wonder if it was just the SDA church that was the problem, so I went through a phase of investigating other religions. But I came to the conclusion that all religions just sell slightly different brands of ancient BS, and religious leaders only differ in their degree of hypocrisy, self-delusion, their need to control other people and their general wickedness.
The vast majority of religious people are either wilfully ignorant or they're so dim that they're incapable of even beginning to understand how absurd and illogical their beliefs are. But there's truth in the old adage that ignorance is bliss, so many of them are very happy.
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Wew, looks like you have been through some things.
By the very possibility of consciousness preceding material it is naive to conclude that religion is illogical.
Ironically calling religious people hypocritical and absurd without considering metaphysics and being unwilling to read about religions/mysticism makes your statements quite hypocritical and absurd.
Furthermore, the error in your thinking, I would like to point out, is that you haven't considered the function of religion, mainly in that it serves as a tool to guide people towards mysticism.
I don't mean to convert you into any sort of tradition but rather to stress the validity of religious tradition and exploration.
Peace out, and make up your mind
Don't. Be bound by a specific tradition but figure it out by yourself