Oh well, Christians do claim that everyone has their own path to reach God
Quote:'Tarot Cards Made Me Catholic Again, They're for Christians Too
I bought my first tarot deck in 2015 because I was bored and restless and felt like I was spiritually drowning without that gravity of faith. I was 25 years old and mothering two sons under the age of two while my husband was busy in law school. I was struggling with the perceived loss of self that often accompanies the first years of motherhood.
I quickly fell in love with how tarot scratched my itch for the ritual of religion, and how it made me feel seen.
The sneaky thing about tarot—the thing about tarot that folks rarely talk about—is that it's filled with Christian imagery. I would pull Temperance and journal about the presence of that Christian virtue in my life. I would pull the Hierophant, a Pope-like figure, and meditate on the joys and sorrows of my relationship with the institutional church. I would pull the Devil and reflect on the nature of my own particular vices. Tarot helped me to see myself more clearly, and I believe it also showed me the God-shaped hole in my life.
I returned to Christianity, specifically the Catholicism of my youth, but I did not abandon tarot. Tarot was one of the things that led me back to God, and it seemed unthinkable to leave it behind. To my mind, tarot and Christianity are a natural pair, even though their marriage might seem strange at first glance. I simply integrated tarot into my prayer practice, a seamless process that involved pulling cards with morning prayer and finding connections between the images and Scripture.
Tarot might be for occultists and fortune tellers and New Age practitioners, but I believe it is also for Christians. Tarot gave me images for my feelings when I didn't yet have the words for them. Slowly and carefully, and almost unconsciously, it led me back to a life of faith. And it still does this, day after day, as I pull cards and pray.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
