(October 15, 2018 at 1:14 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:“The human race has suffered for centuries and is still suffering from the mental disorder known as religion, and atheism is the only physician that will be able to effect a permanent cure.” (Joseph Lewis)(October 15, 2018 at 1:09 pm)Astreja Wrote: It doesn't sound like your religion is serving you very well at all, MK. If you're in such a state of confusion, rituals are just going to make it worse.
You conjecture and I understand, why, you would conjecture this. But the truth is without these rituals and fighting weapons of prayers taught by the family of Taha and Yaseen as well as Suratal Falaq in particular, I would have been lost in despair and I would not be doing school, and I would be without any will or drive, and without belief in myself.
A holy book that doesn't address how to repair out of mental illness and how to combat it, is no holy book as much of humanity has mental illness.

"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)