god-haunted: faith, martyrdom, and the romanticization of suffering in religion
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god-haunted: faith, martyrdom, and the romanticization of suffering in religion
To further aggravate our emotional woes, modernity has cast aside what had been, since the dawn of time, a central resource for coping with lifeβs vicissitudes. God has died and there is now little we can turn to, intone in front of, or beg for deliverance from when times grow hard. We dwell in a world ruled by the pitiless laws of science in which
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It is so monumentally embarrassing that I am finally getting into Christianity because it's the only way I can quit vaping.
I am more of a general deist/ feel like god is physics/ math / sees itself thru our eyes kinda vibe in terms of what I "actually think" (the universe is also probably dead and empty except yeh... See more
π¦ππππΎπ β³x.comThis tends to happen to ex-believers who find themselves back in church: it's not until you're back in the room, with the faith atomized in the air, the energy rising off the people still inside the system, that you really remember. Call it late-breaking phantom limb syndrome of the soul.