god-haunted: faith, martyrdom, and the romanticization of suffering in religion
What I can do, what I’m trying to do, is put into words how hard it is to be without religion. To feel your way through this world without moral guidance. To exist without any sense that you belong to something bigger. To have nothing to atone for; nobody to feel indebted to. And to show that yes, we might not be shackled to old-fashioned morality... See more
N.S. Lyons • A World In Upheaval
To further aggravate our emotional woes, modernity has cast aside what had been, since the dawn of time, a central resource for coping with life’s 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
... See moreAlain de Botton • A Therapeutic Journey
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
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