Happy resurrection of the Christ.

Happy resurrection of the Christ.

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[HolyCross9]

Christ has Risen!

[Arthor2017]

Amen!

[Actua]

For the Christian that I once was, and never can be again, I hope that your faith makes you a better person for as long as you have it.

[Alex Warlorn]

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I refuse to give all the "more rational than thou" atheists I've had to deal with that satisfaction of them breaking me.

[Actua]

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Yeah, that's not what's happening here.

It's difficult to bridge the gap when both sides think they have the right answer. It's one of the reasons religions will always fight. For us, specifically you and me, I was where you are. I was also somewhere NEAR what you expect.

I don't have the "Good News" that god doesn't exist. I have knowledge that it's true. It helped me make sense of things... But I'm a very different person than most people are and what I gained for my troubles is simply understanding. All the other questions remain. The certainty of the answers has simply evaporated in the light.

And I KNOW most people would break without that structure, that certainty of purpose and direction. And I KNOW that DOES NOT make me better than them because I carry troubles of my own which for most are as simple as breathing.

I used to be a Christian, and now I cannot be. People try to say "You can come back" and that is not true because you cannot unlearn things, unreason them, reverse the dawn of understanding. What is done is done. I cannot forget. I cannot tell that lie to the god I believe does not exist, cannot exist. It would be a lie to myself. I am here now and I cannot go back.

I am not telling you to follow.

And if your faith makes you a better person, unlike so many, then I hope you carry it well for as long as it does that. I don't know how to give that meaning without telling who I am because there is always the expectation that I currently believe and that feels like a lie. It feels wrong to walk amongst the believers as if I were one when I do not and cannot be one.

And so, if it helps you I hope it keeps on helping you. I really do.

Happy Easter.

[Alex Warlorn]

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"Why religions will always fight"

I'm actually fine with Buddhists, Hindus, Taoists, Shinto, Jews, Muslims, and yes, even Protestants (many of whom our founding fathers were members). And I'm happy to hear the worshippers (all one thousand of them) of the Norse gods have gotten a new unironic temple for the first time in a thousand years. I know what team I'm batting for, and I hope my team wins, but by definition, that means I'm ALSO on the side of the baseball league as a whole, that's how I interpret things at least.

I just don't like people who think the sport is a plague or relic upon humanity and must be shut down, or think that it shouldn't affect any meaningful aspect of life or civilization and be sentenced to exist in a vacuum.

[Actua]

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And I have seen the evil it can do. The lies. The insanity. The violence. The horror.
And I've seen the good it can do. The hope. The love. The community. The path forward in darkness.
And I've seen the childish expectations of those who cast off the veil and expect every mystery solved and ever crutch to be cast aside which never seems to come.

And all are true. All of them.

And I don't know the right words.

Happy Easter.