Replying to Avatar Jeff Swann

I just posted this in an INTJ facebook group, I'm expecting some fireworks...

"The more unconscious & willfully ignorant we are of some aspect of ourselves the uglier & less healthy that part of us becomes. Religious people are often trained to view all sexual desire as evil. Because of this they push their sex drive out of their consciousness & into the shadows, where it becomes something twisted & feral that literally haunts them. When we refuse to accept reality we create our own demons.

Most atheists actually suffer from a similar & arguably much worse problem. They believe religion is all nonsense & then they unconsciously worship authority in a way that produces & supports the most evil & deadly religion to ever plague humanity. Governments have songs, symbols, statues, monuments, ritual ceremonies, sacred halls, sacred texts, black robed interpreters of said texts, other costumed authorities, "climate guilt" as original sin, violent foreign crusades to "promote democracy," & at the end of the day the government doesn't even exist, it's just ideologically possessed people stealing from & doing horrible things to others in the name of some imaginary abstraction. More than 300mil people were killed at the hands of govt religions in the 20th century alone. Wake up."

I suspect the exception might be athiests who have consciously made some set of principles or some foundational piece of reality into their guiding light. But I think God & reality are the same thing so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Definitely some truth to that...

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Yes, there's some truth on that. Maybe the most "balanced and free" position is agnosticism.

I personally define myself as agnostic, I really don't believe in God or anything "super natural", but can't affirm that I'm right, it's just my thoughts.. I just try to live well without bothering anybody, human, plant, animal or anything.

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Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing, fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities, who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations; informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness, chaotic, confused, vulnerability, to inform yourself.

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