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God loved me, and love feels like shame, obedience, and unworthiness.
Punishing
“However, what I can say is that something happened when God the female, God the many, and God the abundant, became God the male, God the jealous, God the singular, and God the conqueror.”
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
“The danger in fundamentalist surety is that when one believes their way is the only way, people will commit acts of violence or moral error, sure that they are doing their God’s work, or sure that their ends justify the means.”
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
“How silly we are to crave order in the form of Christian theocracy when our country was founded on the experiment that society is better built without the pretense that God is running the show.”
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
“There simply seemed to be no reason why faith in the correct supernatural story should be the highest value in God’s hierarchy of values, especially when most people who have ever lived on this earth did not have access to that story.”
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion--its message becomes meaningless.”3”
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
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