What was a time when you drank the kool aid? (lemmy.world)

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For those who aren't familiar with the term, it means believing something that probably shouldn't be believed, or being influenced to believe something that's not necessarily in your best interests.

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[-] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 4 months ago

The zeal of a convert.

I dunno, my crisis of faith went from mourning to anger very quickly. I was quick to anger and held grudges like any immature man back then. Perhaps I just needed to work it out of my system. Now I'm more let live and let live, but it was a slow process filled with people with more patience than I deserved.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I still think organized religion is a net drain on society but I'm generally ok with private faith. (I was raised secular though, never had my own faith to lose)

[-] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Me too, I just also think that the antitheist movement (mostly vocal and unempathetic antitheists such as I was) is also a net drain on society.

Did I spark any crisis of faith? Inspire zealots to suddenly care about others humanity? I don't think so. But, I did spend a lot of time studying doctrine that I now consider wasted. I burned a lot of bridges with people who, rightly, didn't want to be around me.

I think people create god in their own image. They use doctrine to justify what they would have believed anyway. I was taught to be homophobic by homophobes, Leviticus was just the tool used to deliver the lesson.

Stopping being Mormon didn't stop my homophobia, the lessons were deep and that came later. I think instead if I had internalised homophobia was bad earlier, I would have left the church as a by product. Internalising bigotry=bad got me to leave antitheism, is where I got that from.

So that's where I'm at: champion human rights and people will leave toxic structures as a by product.

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