RE: The most important reason I'm xtian
December 2, 2013 at 6:11 pm
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2013 at 6:12 pm by Whateverist.)
(December 2, 2013 at 5:57 pm)Zazzy Wrote:(December 2, 2013 at 3:30 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Lol! I've told you I'm following a religion and that it does not matter to me a whit if the stories upon which it is based are even true or not! I'd be willing to KEEP following it, even If I had proof positive that the people in it didn't say the things the bible had them saying, or do the things the bible said they did!The fact that you know it's unreasonable is what make you reasonable.
What could be less reasonable than that!?!?
It's like people who say that the amazing thing is that there is something instead of nothing. To my mind, if the only dimension we possessed was analytic, then there would be no 'me' at all. The amazing thing is that I can be inspired, in love, creative and recognize the truth when I hear it. All those things reinforce that I am somebody in particular, and that truly makes me glad.
I never underwent a religious conversion but I did come to experience myself in a deeper way than the levers of my conscious mind alone would ever have revealed. That has made all the difference. Every factoid and explanation is nothing by comparison.
Jacob is right of course that it doesn't really matter what story we tell to keep ourselves connected to the transcendent. All that matters is that it works. Anyone who trusts their rational mind to be the arbiter of who we are is lost.
