Religion creates faith for those who cannot create it in themselves, and by relying on religion in this way, they surrender control of their beliefs to the religion that's supplying their faith. These institutions necessarily operate on fear and deficit.
"What could be more vile, more insidious, than to cloak an agenda of hatred in the language of love?" That's a great line, and a great summation of the cognitive dissonance involved in American Christianity. It's all part of the same incoherent worldview that constantly proclaims the importance of morals and values while supporting beliefs and practices that are based on hatred and harm to those who aren't exactly like them.
Religion creates faith for those who cannot create it in themselves, and by relying on religion in this way, they surrender control of their beliefs to the religion that's supplying their faith. These institutions necessarily operate on fear and deficit.
Fantastic read, Justin!
Very kind of you, Charlotte! Thanks!
"What could be more vile, more insidious, than to cloak an agenda of hatred in the language of love?" That's a great line, and a great summation of the cognitive dissonance involved in American Christianity. It's all part of the same incoherent worldview that constantly proclaims the importance of morals and values while supporting beliefs and practices that are based on hatred and harm to those who aren't exactly like them.