6/ A deep intent to know what's going on should be welcome in any serious intellectual circle, whether scientific/atheistic or spiritual/religious. We all have more to learn. We all have idols to shatter.
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7/ (And prayer is a real, practical, naturalistic, explainable thing, that can be ultra helpful for getting your life on track. Quit your excuses and try it for 30-60 minutes, if you're not scared.
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I have accepted God as real, and I've accepted that Christianity is a fully realized, existential stance to all of the limits of the human condition. The problem I run into isn't God or physics - it's history, being able to affirm the events of the Gospels as historically true.
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So, like, these stories are really important - they point to the more-than-life, but I just can't say I find them plausible as historical propositions. And it's pretty obvious that Christianity did not just drop down as a revelation from heaven.
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It's a finally tuned machine made up of works by wiser, smarter and saintlier men than me. BUT... religion seems to work better for people who *believe* in the *literal* truth of at least some solid core events.
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What if they're truer than true? An event is only incidentally true, a lesson however *necessarily* obtains.
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Historically, most religious believers would have believed in the literal, historical truth of their religious claims.
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I am not sure that we can derive the same nutrients from them without this belief.
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It’s a good question. My take on this has been that the/a purpose of religion is to help mankind with the difficulties that we face. Existential despair, uncertainty about the basis of everything are some of these challenges...
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Before we had the thing we think about as religion, we had different, terrifying difficulties that we thankfully don’t have to nearly the degree that we do now. So it’s possible that the same answers won’t work for us as worked for people in the past. Still, the teachings aren’t
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It seems like people are looking for something that fills the same function as religion without the messy, mythic components. Its like giving up on a traditional diet to figure out what to eat from first principles. You get a serious micro-nutrient deficiency.
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Yea. I do think the modern era unfortunately has some kind of infectious opposition to meaning & subjectivity.
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