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HODL · 81w
Christians, Help me out here. How does one feel strongly about Jesus? How does one have a personal relationship with Christ? In general I feel very little or nothing when I think about god and he...
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BRO I’m the same way! I feel like it’s an amazing feeling to truly believe it, but my logician brain refuses to let me view it as anything more than a construct of the human psyche. It always comes back to being one way to shield and protect yourself from the inevitable shitstorm that is life, and a way to make every end justify the means.

Not necessarily a negative thing, despite the vernacular, but it just feels like a spiritual safety blanket.
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penglunds · 81w
In the follow up to this article (link in bottom), I touch on how most people - regardless of whether they consider themselves as believing in anything resembling the divine - live and act as if God exist. Might give a perspective - did for me once I understood it. https://medium.com/@penglunds/why...