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20. When I Finally Moved Away From All Religion,

Sun Oct 11, 2015, 10:54 AM

Oct 2015

I found that very liberating. It was like escaping from an intellectual jail, opening a window to the universe. Religious people operate in a very narrow corridor of the universe, enclosed by impassible walls, i.e., they can only go "so far" and no further, because to "go further" would be to defy "God" and invite, not merely earthly damnation from other believers, but even eternal damnation after you die.

Enlightenment truly is escaping from religion and once people do, the fear, of everything, including death itself, is gone, too.

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