I’ve always though there something in human nature that really really wants to be the morally correct and righteous party. The rest is back-engineering
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Maybe for most people but I'm built different. ✊
jun 30, 2025, 4:54 pm • 3 0 • view
That’s what religion is SUPPOSED to temper, right? Like reining in the vices of human nature? I’ve just found that needing to be right about everything always is exhausting. That’s my forcing function these days lol
jun 30, 2025, 4:56 pm • 3 0 • view
There are different views, I guess, but I've always felt like that was one of the benefits of religion. I remember posting on Twitter a couple years ago that if I wanted to convince someone there was no God I would just point out that Christians aren't any better than anyone else.
jun 30, 2025, 4:57 pm • 3 0 • view
And I am a Christian, but I find that circle very hard to square.
jun 30, 2025, 4:57 pm • 4 0 • view
The last decade has destroyed any concept of the Holy Spirit that I ever had.
jun 30, 2025, 5:01 pm • 2 0 • view
When I was growing up there was a concept of squelching the Holy Spirit by repeatedly ignoring it and I had largely rejected that concept but if any of this is true, it seems that must be as well.
jun 30, 2025, 5:02 pm • 4 0 • view
I’ve largely converted all my thoughts about religion from a true/false paradigm to a helpful/unhelpful one. A lot of that is that I just don’t need for something to be true in order for it to be a beautiful or helpful idea.
jun 30, 2025, 5:05 pm • 4 0 • view
I think that if there is a God and that God doesn't hate humanity, helpful unhelpful is as good a paradigm as any to try and get it right.
jun 30, 2025, 5:22 pm • 4 0 • view
I was just saying nearly exactly this to a friend last night
jun 30, 2025, 5:22 pm • 3 0 • view
One of the big turning points for me was when I realized that if there is a God and God is depending on us to get all or even most of the details right, we're all fucked.
jun 30, 2025, 5:28 pm • 5 0 • view