100% I’ve never been able to understand religion. At this point I view it as a scapegoat and a crutch for people who either need the hope of something better, or an all purpose get out of jail free card to wipe away all the horrible things they do

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i respect that there are differences in mindsets, but i guess i feel alienated sometimes in that aspect and i think it’s correlated with the way my brain works

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THIS!! Like “oh god is so mighty and humble an perfect” Bro he does not sound humble if our entire lives are supposed to be spent living how he wants and worshipping him

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I feel the same way. I grew up in a very religious family and any time an adult tried to talk to me about god it always gave me the same vibe as when other children would try to convince me that Santa is real.

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It’s always been nonsensical to me. So many of their texts are full of contradictions and violence and historical inaccuracies.

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You have to do some reading *IF* you want to understand. And well you could read the actual text or you could just read fiction with themes - watch Knives out 3, it’s an amazing movie overall but also touches religion. Another series you can read is Licanious Trilogy- High Fantasy set in world of magic and time travel.

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i don’t have the energy to respond to this cuz i feel burnt out but what helped me engage with the history of religion was see how it changed over time. see how it changed with regard to class struggle. how liberation theology emerged, and what earlier aspects were. what religion means, what faith means, how the emergence in x area was a response to y. what religion has served (it does not exist in vacuum - it is transposed upon our material conditions). whether it restructured

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So actually you do get the concept, you just don't personally attach to it and that's okay

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Idk about religion as a whole but I def believe in St. Anthony

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I have many friends who are autistic/on the spectrum and they are all very religious (becoming Catholic at the moment). My one friend is high functioning and she’s going to become a nun in the next year or so, and my other friend has a PhD in theoretical physics and felt that there is enough evidence and rational reasoning/explanation behind why there is a God

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