05-22-2023, 10:24 AM
The topic evidently wasn't controversial enough to prevent MO from responding with a lengthy monologue. lol
She's right about institutional, organized religion being, on the whole, more traumatizing than liberating. This has been expounded upon, mostly by butthurt left-wing activists, for as long as I can remember.
That said, religion, in its true sense of "relinking," or reconnecting with one's inner self, is necessary for mental health and individual growth. It actually has psychological underpinnings. Whether you believe in a god or not, the fundamental structure and organization of the human mind cannot be wished away. It's when we project that inner religious material onto the outside world in the form of "isms" - capitalism, communism, progressivism, and so forth - that the "otherness" manifests as nation against nation, brother against brother, the battle of the sexes, the Cold War, racial genocide, and every other manner of group conflict.
I would encourage you to quit dwelling on any trauma organized religion has brought to you, or to the world at large, and study esoteric philosophies and Jungian psychology instead. Avoid the angry, ranting feminists, race-baiters, and other ideologues who attempt to subvert these teachings to serve their half-baked sociopolitical agendas. Just stick to writers who lay it out in a matter-of-fact way.
She's right about institutional, organized religion being, on the whole, more traumatizing than liberating. This has been expounded upon, mostly by butthurt left-wing activists, for as long as I can remember.
That said, religion, in its true sense of "relinking," or reconnecting with one's inner self, is necessary for mental health and individual growth. It actually has psychological underpinnings. Whether you believe in a god or not, the fundamental structure and organization of the human mind cannot be wished away. It's when we project that inner religious material onto the outside world in the form of "isms" - capitalism, communism, progressivism, and so forth - that the "otherness" manifests as nation against nation, brother against brother, the battle of the sexes, the Cold War, racial genocide, and every other manner of group conflict.
I would encourage you to quit dwelling on any trauma organized religion has brought to you, or to the world at large, and study esoteric philosophies and Jungian psychology instead. Avoid the angry, ranting feminists, race-baiters, and other ideologues who attempt to subvert these teachings to serve their half-baked sociopolitical agendas. Just stick to writers who lay it out in a matter-of-fact way.
