Website review: My Abstinence Education & de-conver...
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SketchSepahi rated 26 hours ago- This reminds me uncomfortably much of my own experiences with Christianity as I was growing up. No, of course I wasn't a girl, who had a crush on some boy in the congregation. It's just that I can spot uncannily many similarities even if what I want through was not concretely the same. As harrystottle pointed out, the key phrase is "Jesus gave me the perfect excuse to hold onto a juvenile morality" In a sense my teenage religion was in fact little more than a juvenile attempt at forfeiting adult responsibility and live in a perpetually secure and childish world. As my perception of my parents being infallible steadily smouldered I was desperately seeking to replace it with an ideal, which was out of reach for mature reality - an ideal which would never have to be replaced. A static black and white morality, which would render the world simple, comprehensible, and safe. Needless to say - and luckily - such a flawed world-view could not be sustained. It was a fragile construction indeed and eventually the card house came tumbling down. When that happened it was a mighty blow indeed. It was a shock having to suddenly grow up almost over night, instead of doing it gradually as I would have, if it weren't for such self-delusional superstitions. I wonder what my childhood would have been like without me being introduced to religion at such an early age.
- harrystottle rated 3 weeks ago
- Key Phrase: "Jesus gave me the perfect excuse to hold onto a juvenile morality"
First, congratulations to the author for breaking the spell. She has done a great service by illuminating the inner reasoning going on in the religious mind. Her words will help convert/de-convert far more believers than the atheist site I was bitching about last night.
I'll have to expand on this elsewhere but in that one sentence you see the root of the self deception required to sustain religious belief.
If that was where it stopped, religion would be pathetic but harmless, but it's what happens next that causes religion to become a social poison. The self deceivers feel obligated to spread the deception. Hence, for example the drive to "public prayer" (coincidentally discussed by the very next story I stumbled) which is a naked and naive attempt at social conditioning.
They also feel disturbed and challenged by the very public activities of those who haven't chosen their narrow path. They feel compelled either to make those challenges invisible (by shutting themselves away from the data) or impossible (by persuading governments to enact laws which support their fears and prejudice).
This is the single most important source of the major ongoing conflicts around the world. - Key Phrase: "Jesus gave me the perfect excuse to hold onto a juvenile morality"
- shadus rated 4 weeks ago
- Interesting read. I've talked to a lot of women who were christian in their youth who had similar experiences... and a lot who just rebelled against it all and did all the things she wished she did :)
- marcusklaas rated 5 weeks ago
- From the page: "We should have been exploring our sexuality, instead we were following outdated rules. " wow ... nice artikle
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