Like as a fellow believer you're supposed to carefully and patiently go "Well pray on it deeply to ensure you aren't being misled" even though YOU KNOW you can just say you "felt God pushing you" to do any damn thing
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Like even just charitably speaking about people who really do believe they hear God's voice - I strongly believe it's really important to at least try to understand why you're making a decision when you make them This kind of mystical shit is directly designed to obscure that
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Ironically I get this from CS Lewis, when he said the only two reasons you should ever do anything are that you want to or you ought to - there's a whole third category of reasons that don't fit into either bucket that you should just discard
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And the whole "Listen for God's voice" thing is explicitly designed to confuse these three categories with each other and refuse to unpack them Make it sound like you're morally obligated to do something you just want to do, or that some charismatic figure says you should do
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Same subculture I came out of. I'm glad I managed to get out of it.
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There's a post by
@SlacktivistFred that goes into detail on this: If you say God is speaking to you, and He told you to go in peace, to love your neighbor as yourself, to tend to the least of these, to treat all men as your brother, then, okay, I believe God spoke to you. -
But if you say God told you to cause violence, to oppress the downtrodden, to break oaths, to harm others...well, in that case, I don't think it was God speaking to you so much as the Justification Fairy
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Because Jesus was a Nazi I presume??? LOL.
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It also drives you batshit because you're either in agony wondering why it never happens to you, or else you fool yourself into thinking that it has. Source: my childhood.
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There's a whole story of a guy who, when he heard God tell him to do something, demanded a miracle just to be sure. In triplicate.
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Yeah. Like, did this guy try running away from the Capitol? If God really wanted him there, a fish would have come up, swallowed him, and vomited him out on the Capitol steps.
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