4/ Gurus tempting you away from 'what's really going on' are charlatans (bad version), or are temporarily disorienting you to get you to see more clearly (weird but better version). Shouldn't ultimately ask you to deny your best sense of what's true.https://twitter.com/michaelcurzi/status/1206064019691331584 …
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5/ Just because they say 'God' doesn't need to mean they're asking you to deny physics/evolution etc. (Some are.) The best religious perspectives value reason. (Both Newton and Darwin are buried at Westminster Abbey. Perhaps this indicates *some* interest in scientific truth?)pic.twitter.com/j4lV7Oiv7X
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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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Agreed but it seemed to get, say, Peterson a long way?
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did it tho
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