there's always a new religious schism to learn about https://orthodoxwiki.org/Old_Believers
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly
I found for myself, personally, that learning about the history of a religion is a major barrier to conversion. Because you cannot fool yourself into thinking that it just emerged perfectly into the world from divine revelation. You peeked behind the curtain.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @sonyasupposedly
This, more than any "rationalist" style arguments about the existence of G*d has prevented me from being religious in any conventional sense: the historic arbitrariness arbitrariness of it.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @sonyasupposedly
Very true. Don't look too closely at the origins of a religion if you want to believe.
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Replying to @Russell76681785 @xstntlprvrt69
or look them straight in the face and believe anyway
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If you have that choice, sure. Relevant:https://thefutureprimaeval.tumblr.com/post/130867775523/sanity-for-sociality-a-theory-of-religion …
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