RE: Regarding the power of religion over emotions
March 27, 2018 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2018 at 11:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
As an interesting counterpoint to the loss of those perceptions correlating to the loss of religion - I never had a religion, so never lost a religion..and I -do- have those perceptions.
All of the things that believers communicate as the nature of their "relationship with god"...I feel all of that, just without any gods or need for gods, lol. It's my familiarity and recognition of what they're talking about, the certain understanding that they feel what I feel, that forms the basis of my calling bullshit when they get too churchspeaky about some x.
They're taking liberties with our shared experience, and we both know better. Like Mystic..above.. as he rattles off that script..and it is a script..as though he draws a complete blank in the absence of god.
He and I both know that he doesn't.
Back round to former believers who feel that loss. Well, do you, really..and if so...could it be that the baby went out with the bathwater?
All of the things that believers communicate as the nature of their "relationship with god"...I feel all of that, just without any gods or need for gods, lol. It's my familiarity and recognition of what they're talking about, the certain understanding that they feel what I feel, that forms the basis of my calling bullshit when they get too churchspeaky about some x.
They're taking liberties with our shared experience, and we both know better. Like Mystic..above.. as he rattles off that script..and it is a script..as though he draws a complete blank in the absence of god.
He and I both know that he doesn't.
Back round to former believers who feel that loss. Well, do you, really..and if so...could it be that the baby went out with the bathwater?
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