Tectonics of faith n shiet : how religion and faith aren't the same thing and reason is poisoj
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Friendly Rebuttal: Engaging with Tom Pnoid’s “I Am Not an Atheist, But I Am Not a Christian Either”
This piece is a friendly rebuttal to Tom Pnoid the Appalachian Gorilla’s thoughtful article, I Am Not an Atheist, But I Am Not a Christian Either. I appreciate his exploration of faith beyond labels, and while I challenge some points, it’s all in the spirit of constructive dialogue.
Who defines these terms? You? When everything is subjective, then there is no meaning. The dishonorable can label themselves as honorable, etc. Is it “might makes right” that defines terms? What about the most guileful or trickiest defining the terms?
Addendum: Responding to the author’s rejection of atheism and traditional Christianity in favor of a personal higher power aligned with values like honor, manhood, femininity, lineage, and family.
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Humans have many facets, but not all humans have the full range or the same abilities or proclivities for these things. They are seen as irrational because these things must be defined and controlled if a civilization is to exist and people can believe in a “noble” lie of society.
Addendum: Addressing the portrayal of human experiences like love, lust, anger, hate, respect, honor, faith, and beauty as irrational and beyond scientific measurement.
Technology and power knowledge equal as much as genetics or skills, if not more so. But when you have a certain recipe of all of these, it can look very different depending on the situation. Define “weak”? If the physically or morally flexible people rule you because of secret knowledge or technology or language manipulation, that is strength over you who sees things through that lens. Solipsistic argument.
Addendum: Countering the emphasis on genetics and innate talents outweighing practice, with tools like firearms or laws empowering the weaker.
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If we all have our own code and ethics, and you can’t actually know another’s motives or points of view. Your expectations give us our heartbreaks. If people had lowered expectations or different priorities, like in a neo-primitivism scenario, these feelings may get differently expressed or altogether not exist. Our pain is defined by our language and notions, so isn’t that more universal than our emotions in and of themselves?
Addendum: Reflecting on the author’s personal anecdote of romantic betrayal’s emotional turmoil as a universal, unquantifiable human pain.
Does the ability to survive or adapt make something good or better? And assuming we know what the circumstances of these people were, versus how we romanticize their existence to deal with our own fears and insecurities about our situation. Christianity, even though it has been bastardized, has been and continues to be the standard of ethics and morality by which all others are judged. Did such a thing even exist before Christianity or after? So by what standard is this new standard judged? Is truth just a feeling, as Hank o’Flameo says?
Addendum: Challenging the view of pre-Christian ancestors’ resilience through willpower and local customs, arguing their ways were forcibly supplanted.
Faith is supra to belief and religion: faith is being, and reason is becoming. Religious interpretation other than the correct one is always a problem. Most Christians could learn more from reading the Dao De Jing rather than trying to understand the different sects of Christianity. Christianity is pure truth because He is Jesus Christ, and He is God, the creator and being of all beings. Truth doesn’t need to be rationalized. So neither does faith.
Addendum: Responding to questions about maintaining faith amid skepticism and flaws in splintered Christian sects, including “spiritual aphantasia.”
Trust is something that can only exist in physical human experience mixed with the narrative that we tell ourselves about the relationships with others or ourselves and how that feels. That’s a feeling. Faith requires no proof because it’s truth beyond reason. Belief is the absence of knowing and more in the realm of imagination, which is very dangerous although it can be useful. It may be a survival mechanism, but even that belief in that term came from someone who had irrational justifications for making the term “survival mechanism,” which is within a framework of a particular worldview which is now imposed upon you as a belief because you now use it to convey their idea into another mind by writing it.
Addendum: Differentiating faith, trust, and belief as evolutionary holdovers for purpose in chaos.
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