I was raised a Jehovah's Witness, and they teach that hell is just another word for the common grave of mankind. Which means that when you die, you cease to exist. No suffering. So hell is not a trigger word for me. I suppose that sin is not a trigger word because hell isn't.
I think that demons probably were a trigger for me for a while, because while I no longer believe in them the old tales still resonate in some part of my subconscious. I still get spooked by the dark, though I notice that it is less and less of a problem for me as time goes on. When I was a believer I don't think I could have spent a night alone in the house I live in now --nights alone in an apartment were bad enough-- but it isn't a problem for me now. Heck, I am finally able to watch horror movies again without feeling terrorized by the long shadows in the corridors.
I think that demons probably were a trigger for me for a while, because while I no longer believe in them the old tales still resonate in some part of my subconscious. I still get spooked by the dark, though I notice that it is less and less of a problem for me as time goes on. When I was a believer I don't think I could have spent a night alone in the house I live in now --nights alone in an apartment were bad enough-- but it isn't a problem for me now. Heck, I am finally able to watch horror movies again without feeling terrorized by the long shadows in the corridors.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
