And because so much of this narrative is internal and invisible it's really easy to do You get tons of extremely pat narratives about how anything that went wrong in your life was a test or a punishment for unaddressed sin, and then God took care of it as soon as you prayed
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This is just why I'm generally averse to "spirituality" in this vein even divorced from theology It is very important to understand, as the writer of Ecclesiastes did, that everything does NOT happen for a reason
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The sense of control and comfort people get from having something to thank when things go well is not, in my view, worth the burden of being Job and being stuck looking for a reason when things go wrong
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That may be an overall flaw in human memory and rationalization, though. It's a specific script for them, but there are others.
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People really fail to appreciate the brainwashing aspect of several forms of Christianity
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