RE: Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
December 14, 2024 at 4:01 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2024 at 4:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Sheldon
The rules only hold until the nuts wanna say crazy shit. I think that's our human nature bubbling up from under the gunk. We don't want to feel like idiots for the idiotic things we believe..and continuing to believe idiotic things without discomfort is often worth more to us than removing idiotic things from our beliefs. Especially so with religious beliefs - as expressions of how we wish the world were no matter what terms accurately describe those desires or how the world actually is.
A committed christian could tell us that they know they're degenerate sinners who don't deserve gods grace, but they still want it, and they think they're gonna get it. They could acknowledge that some facts make it difficult to believe in the contents of their scriptures...that they have trouble making sense of it all, and that this is why you need to get such things out of your life and lean in on faith. Rationality and logic are simply not among the organizing principles of a faith based firstly and wholly upon magic and wish thinking. These things can never meet in the middle of a genuine faith. There's no vicariously redemptive juice in rationality or getting facts right.
The rules only hold until the nuts wanna say crazy shit. I think that's our human nature bubbling up from under the gunk. We don't want to feel like idiots for the idiotic things we believe..and continuing to believe idiotic things without discomfort is often worth more to us than removing idiotic things from our beliefs. Especially so with religious beliefs - as expressions of how we wish the world were no matter what terms accurately describe those desires or how the world actually is.
A committed christian could tell us that they know they're degenerate sinners who don't deserve gods grace, but they still want it, and they think they're gonna get it. They could acknowledge that some facts make it difficult to believe in the contents of their scriptures...that they have trouble making sense of it all, and that this is why you need to get such things out of your life and lean in on faith. Rationality and logic are simply not among the organizing principles of a faith based firstly and wholly upon magic and wish thinking. These things can never meet in the middle of a genuine faith. There's no vicariously redemptive juice in rationality or getting facts right.
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