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I don’t view religion as needing defending. I view it as a wonderful resource that people deny themselves through overweighting their own cleverness.
by whiddershins 4y ago
I don’t view religion as needing defending.
I view it as a wonderful resource that people deny themselves through overweighting their own cleverness.
- lelandfe 4y agoThat you favor religion as a resource means your walk is orthogonal to any issues of faith I have. My call to serve as a pastor was hard to justify when I saw suffering. The utility of my faith just isn't a part of the calculus.
- whiddershins 4y agoIt’s hard for me to understand your POV. I empathize, but I can’t grok it. What you call hypocrisy I call a mystery or an enigma or something that it might takes decades of work to understand. How can you be called by something that doesn’t exist? Or you are saying it does exist but isn’t good. Or the practice isn’t good. I just don’t understand why lacking a good explanation for the existence of suffering that you, personally, can wrap your mind around would be such a deal breaker. I’m sure it makes sense to you. I just don’t think that way, at least not anymore.