Relapses of a recovering god-aholic

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I did have some seemingly unexplainable occurrences, that blew my mind, but the human mind is so pro at convincing itself of things that it wants to believe. If you knew you were having a delusion, it wouldn't be a delusion. I'm not saying you're delusional, you seem to want to accept that there are reasonable, neurological and psychological reasons behind your experiences, and there are.

Religious indoctrination can be really tough to overcome.

Thank you for being kind about the experiential part of Christianity.

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I never really had a religious emotional experience. I was still technically a Christian when The Passion of the Christ came out. I went with my whole family. I was the only one who didn't cry... and I'm the type that does cry because of movies. I did have some seemingly unexplainable occurrences, that blew my mind, but the human mind is so pro at convincing itself of things that it wants to believe. If you knew you were having a delusion, it wouldn't be a delusion. I'm not saying you're delusional, you seem to want to accept that there are reasonable, neurological and psychological reasons behind your experiences, and there are.

Religious indoctrination can be really tough to overcome.

Hey, someone else who saw the Passion and was like "Well this is really great...by, you know, torture porn standards..."

"Torture porn"; Well put. I think I'll use this phrase next time someone chides me for thinking the subject matter of that movie was horrible.