1/ I don't know how to articulate this...but, I want to try. I was raised religious. I'm agnostic now. Sometimes when I have conversations with people who never had religion, their flippant attitudes and presumption of religious peoples' ignorance makes me defensive.
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4/ The thing that really gets me -- besides the inherent assertion of superiority -- is that many of the same people who express disdain for religion celebrate altered states and experiences. (I'm looking at you, Silicon Valley bros who talk about your DMT experiences.)
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5/ That's the thing I realized as an adult. Religion during childhood permits you access to an altered state of experience -- reverence, godliness, wonder of something...big -- that is otherwise inaccessible and inexpressible.
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6/ When never-religious people express their superiority to religious people, in my mind, they reject a state of orientation that's good and they will never know. I think a lot of my infatuation with science is in some sense a pursuit of that state -- a desire for reentry.
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