DeaconSouthern Baptists Vote to Further Expand Restrictions on Women as Leaders
what in the fuck. this is why younger people hate religion.
This is why religion is indoctrinated. While I can accept, even while not believing, the argument that spirituality is innate, organized religion is entirely a human construct.
"Spirituality is innate" is such a copout for me. In my opinion, it just means people have an imagination and emotions, but I don't want to admit magic isn't real so I'll call it spirituality.
Is it useful to view spirituality as makeshift philosophy and psychotherapy? When I pick out the good parts of religion, I see it's not so different to what a stoic or my therapist might say. You can either pray for or visualize positive outcomes and either way it works to ease the mind. Hell, Nietzsche's work has basically a religious conception (the Eternal Return) without claiming absolute authority of reality.
I ask because my Mom focuses on this aspect of her religion rather than dogma. I hope it gives her what she needs.