RE: Mormon Prophet
July 31, 2021 at 11:30 am
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2021 at 11:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Sure, np. I think you had the gist of it in broad strokes, the things we may believe at one point in our life for one set of reasons...which, later in life, we may still believe - but for entirely different reasons ( or as pure intuition ).
Things a person might have once believed were true or valuable based on a god-premise, which, when we no longer believe that god-premise, we still believe to be true or good or valuable. Not the articles or items of a religion at that point, or an argument to return to or hold those beliefs. We can fairly say that these are a persons very own internal possessions - regardless of the fact that they once (wrongly) believed they had some necessary relationship to a god. Things they would believe and believe to be valuable regardless of whether they believe in a god as demonstrated by the fact that they still simply do after having lost their faith.
I respect that you've found yourself shedding a lot of negative and painful baggage, that's why I was wondering about the remaining stuff. The stuff you woke up one day, still believing, not about gods but the good stuff in your life. The things you may have felt anxiety about in contemplating leaving your religion, as though it would be leaving them or there would be no justification for them. Sigh of relief type beliefs or values or goods or truths that it turns out you can and do have in your life outside of god belief.
Things a person might have once believed were true or valuable based on a god-premise, which, when we no longer believe that god-premise, we still believe to be true or good or valuable. Not the articles or items of a religion at that point, or an argument to return to or hold those beliefs. We can fairly say that these are a persons very own internal possessions - regardless of the fact that they once (wrongly) believed they had some necessary relationship to a god. Things they would believe and believe to be valuable regardless of whether they believe in a god as demonstrated by the fact that they still simply do after having lost their faith.
I respect that you've found yourself shedding a lot of negative and painful baggage, that's why I was wondering about the remaining stuff. The stuff you woke up one day, still believing, not about gods but the good stuff in your life. The things you may have felt anxiety about in contemplating leaving your religion, as though it would be leaving them or there would be no justification for them. Sigh of relief type beliefs or values or goods or truths that it turns out you can and do have in your life outside of god belief.
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