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The more you learn about your faith, the more you start to see the cracks. Either you retreat away from the cracks, or you question further and further until the facade breaks
Or you somehow separate it from reality to avoid any conflicts. I've heard there's theists who say they believe the literal word and yet work in a science-based field that requires a total different point of view. They either co-exist with both or just go through the motions with one side.
Francis Collins is an excellent science administrator and also a young earth creationist. It's wild, he talks about going to try to talk to his coreligionists about vaccines and they just tune him right out.
I want to know how many priests are actually closeted atheists. I'm sure at a certain point a good chunk of them wake up to the nonsense. However, they are now trained with a life skill and in a profession that has no use outside of the specific context of leading a parish, so they're pretty much stuck unless they want to go back to square one in another field.
I remember Hitchins saying at some point that he had met a few times with top level clergy and that they freely admit that its all bullshit but its what the congregation wants to hear and they rationalize preaching what they know to be bullshit because they think its beneficial.
Mother Theresa of Calcutta for one.
Watch Hells Angels. Her practices practically makes a sadist.
That’s what Bible college did for me!
One of the last nails in the coffin for me was reading the Bible.
Reading about the Bible, the history of it, just convinced me even more that I was right to walk away.
Realizing that Christianity was essentially a religion commissioned by an emperor to consolidate his rule, then that the most common version today was commissioned by a king to consolidate his rule... Yeah, kind of makes you skeptical.
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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