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In reply to the discussion: Some truth in the fog prevalent this morning [View all]MayReasonRule
(4,138 posts)My personal experience is that of being beat to hell, then lifted out, odd to say both times by doubt.
When I rejected doubt I was beat to hell by reality's reason.
When I embraced doubt I was lifted out by reality's reason.
Doubt is a seed for reality's reason.
If one rejects doubt, one is rejecting reason.
Faith rejects doubt and embraces delusion.
Delusion divides.
Reason embraces doubt and rejects delusion.
Reason restores.
It took myself, my wife and our daughter nearly thirty years to escape the tenacious clutches of the Abrahamic Blood Cult of Christ in which we'd been reared and inculcated from birth.
We are the only members of either side of our families that we're aware of that have had the great fortune to succeed in that arduous task. All the rest of the members of our families remain varying flavors of Nationalist Christians in the vilest sense of the term.
There's no easy way out as hard-core believer when you trust in the schemes of the fools and the dreamers. It's a real gut-punch to realize that one has been living within a delusional construct. At that juncture one recognizes that reassessment is the first order of the day.
When my jubilant elation met ultimate sorrow, catastrophe's joy took me decades to swallow.
Today our savior is doubt and our god is reason.
Which is why my mantra is, 'May Reason Rule'.
Laissez bon temps rouler y'all no matter what you do!