First off, I'm truly sorry to hear about your friend. Loosing someone you care about is always difficult. My condolences.
This is a fascinating question.
Firstly, what is crazy? To me most devoutly religious people are crazy by MY definition. They believe in something simply on blind faith with absolutely zero corroborating evidence. That kind of faith is something I have a great deal of difficulty understanding.
On the flip side, I would appear crazy to you common or garden fundie. I think the idea of the Sky Daddy™ is ridiculous.
So I guess “Crazy” is a matter of perspective.
Secondly. I know how guilt affects me in regards to self loathing. I’ve done things in my life that I hate myself for. I wish I could go back and change some of the things I’ve done. From this I imagine that for the devout its even worse. They have there own guilt in there heads, but they also have the “knowledge” ( I use the term in its loosest possible sense) that their god knows what they have done, has seen what they have done and they must repent. Perhaps it just gets to a point where their guilt out ways the natural fear of death and they decide it would be better in heaven?
Couple that with the whole xitain thing with “the fall of mankind” and we are stepped in guilt the moment we are born. So it’s more or less an up hill battle from day one.
Maybe its just having a world view founded on pure fantasy makes dealing with reality difficult for some people.
(August 25, 2010 at 12:34 pm)RachelSkates Wrote: I really want to know if Xism is MORE likely to make people crazy or less, as they claim. They claim it makes you happy, I see it makes people unstable, self loathing, sad, and desperate enough to put a hole in their chest!!!!!
This is a fascinating question.
Firstly, what is crazy? To me most devoutly religious people are crazy by MY definition. They believe in something simply on blind faith with absolutely zero corroborating evidence. That kind of faith is something I have a great deal of difficulty understanding.
On the flip side, I would appear crazy to you common or garden fundie. I think the idea of the Sky Daddy™ is ridiculous.
So I guess “Crazy” is a matter of perspective.
Secondly. I know how guilt affects me in regards to self loathing. I’ve done things in my life that I hate myself for. I wish I could go back and change some of the things I’ve done. From this I imagine that for the devout its even worse. They have there own guilt in there heads, but they also have the “knowledge” ( I use the term in its loosest possible sense) that their god knows what they have done, has seen what they have done and they must repent. Perhaps it just gets to a point where their guilt out ways the natural fear of death and they decide it would be better in heaven?
Couple that with the whole xitain thing with “the fall of mankind” and we are stepped in guilt the moment we are born. So it’s more or less an up hill battle from day one.
Maybe its just having a world view founded on pure fantasy makes dealing with reality difficult for some people.
"A man who keeps one eye on the past is blind in one eye. A man who ignores the past is blind in both."
