I’m so glad I tripped over your article/book by now?
Hope so as I know I know it’s right on time.
I was never forced to have religion in my life as a Catholic as my mother had been taught but my grandmother would be the last of the devout / I’m from a big family so many are still church going but none highly religious and o think my parents were not devoted in any way but wonderful ppl, living and caring with no hint of any hard core rules so very cool I’d call strict with love just for my moms sanity in with 7 in a bungalow lol
Where it came to religion we were no addicts as she steered us to attended basic Sunday school and mass early on because expected so Catechism twice a week then mass as we aged were dropped off on Sat - then slowly made bed to just Sunday school and then by ohh gr.6? Being all close in age we did not have to attended and none of the five of us did.
And I think 1 may still do mass due to his wife from a more religious fam but think it’s only holidays like Xmas midnight mass for some reason lol
It took me many decades to question the fact of whether God was a patriarchal man made and created for control period. The older I got I found myself brave enough to consider myself an atheist - my son at 20 said he was and o was surprised not shocked and later he moved back into it I say do to feeling detached from the inlaws so there’s that and now I’m the atheist and he’s not practicing it’s in name only / just like I find myself saying my prayers I know off heart to my dead parents mainly because it makes me feel close spiritually as I fall asleep - not always but sometimes it comes to mind.
And call myself that when ppl ask if I believe in God like a yes/no .. nothing more counts lol
However ! When I found (tripped over again;) a science write up like a new drug had been discovered - that said bones were found long before God and explained how - in order to prove anything scientifically a THEORY must be proven and in order to have one verified it cannot be called a theory to be true so that meant many theories can be discussed but not without the given the Theoretical EVIDENCE required for facts to be the Fact (sorry I don’t have the article ) but because of the bones they explained found now that archeologically avails deeper digs - it is now safe to say THAT becomes a TRUE THEORY THAT IS ALL A MYTH and also takes care of the Conception versus EVOLUTION !
And makes all the rest make sense like the dots connect as kids find out they don’t soon enough!
Cognitive thinking can help if not too late for the religion addicts but the dissonance is deeply embedded and sadly fear the truth for that reason.
I cannot imagine how cruel it must feel to find out their whole life under a cruel god they had to dress up as a good pure soul once they read the first version of a tyrant lord be.
Eek!
And to think just how bad men can be is beyond comprehension so now they cling harder and colder around those who accept the Facts and what it’s the trump agenda - and when he said “do not believe anything you see or hear”
I was stunned - and the other one that told me MAGA was real was his clinic comment again - the first eye opener dailies lol was to his new base and I quite - “I love the uneducated” and they all rose in a clap.
I knew we were in big trouble.
It takes years of not decades to debrief and reprogram the human mind - like any drug they have to want to unlearn and the public presser by the religion addicts cult society to feel they belong is just staggering but I think there’s hope in this the 21ST CENTURY as we try to leapfrog beyond the first quarter already - lol so I’m happy to hear this one will be moving very much faster as we recalibrate the big system defrag to get ourselves all realigned for a future that took the last half century into a trickle down rabbit hole.
I'm going to print this and place it in a frame on my wall.
You have described the audience that I write for, even named them--indirectly. "ChINO" a Christian In Name Only, sounds like a perfect name for so many who still hold on to that vacant spot they held in their hearts for a god they know isn't there: they go through the motions, but inside they know it's all a fantasy.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this: your story here is probably one of a million similar stories that I hope to hear from those who see my work--whether it be in articles or my book (when finished). You have inspired me to work harder to get it finished: we can see now that the time we are now in is becoming a time when people are becoming afraid, letting fear take root, and fear always makes people return to the concept of a god who will protect them--a god who isn't there, but even if he was, would be a monster even worse than Trump.
I also gleaned from this something new: perhaps a story of a place--a prison, a factory, an apartment complex--where a group of people are held in check by evil 'managers' and 'supervisors' who constantly threaten the group that the 'Warden' is going to show up and punish them: the idea that there is a looming figure with power requiring them to comply with all kinds of insanity, only to find out that the entity--the warden--does not in fact exist: this could be the basis for a strong short story. Maybe even call it "The Warden," a short tale about the way people act when controlled by fear.
I’m so glad I tripped over your article/book by now?
Hope so as I know I know it’s right on time.
I was never forced to have religion in my life as a Catholic as my mother had been taught but my grandmother would be the last of the devout / I’m from a big family so many are still church going but none highly religious and o think my parents were not devoted in any way but wonderful ppl, living and caring with no hint of any hard core rules so very cool I’d call strict with love just for my moms sanity in with 7 in a bungalow lol
Where it came to religion we were no addicts as she steered us to attended basic Sunday school and mass early on because expected so Catechism twice a week then mass as we aged were dropped off on Sat - then slowly made bed to just Sunday school and then by ohh gr.6? Being all close in age we did not have to attended and none of the five of us did.
And I think 1 may still do mass due to his wife from a more religious fam but think it’s only holidays like Xmas midnight mass for some reason lol
It took me many decades to question the fact of whether God was a patriarchal man made and created for control period. The older I got I found myself brave enough to consider myself an atheist - my son at 20 said he was and o was surprised not shocked and later he moved back into it I say do to feeling detached from the inlaws so there’s that and now I’m the atheist and he’s not practicing it’s in name only / just like I find myself saying my prayers I know off heart to my dead parents mainly because it makes me feel close spiritually as I fall asleep - not always but sometimes it comes to mind.
And call myself that when ppl ask if I believe in God like a yes/no .. nothing more counts lol
However ! When I found (tripped over again;) a science write up like a new drug had been discovered - that said bones were found long before God and explained how - in order to prove anything scientifically a THEORY must be proven and in order to have one verified it cannot be called a theory to be true so that meant many theories can be discussed but not without the given the Theoretical EVIDENCE required for facts to be the Fact (sorry I don’t have the article ) but because of the bones they explained found now that archeologically avails deeper digs - it is now safe to say THAT becomes a TRUE THEORY THAT IS ALL A MYTH and also takes care of the Conception versus EVOLUTION !
And makes all the rest make sense like the dots connect as kids find out they don’t soon enough!
Cognitive thinking can help if not too late for the religion addicts but the dissonance is deeply embedded and sadly fear the truth for that reason.
I cannot imagine how cruel it must feel to find out their whole life under a cruel god they had to dress up as a good pure soul once they read the first version of a tyrant lord be.
Eek!
And to think just how bad men can be is beyond comprehension so now they cling harder and colder around those who accept the Facts and what it’s the trump agenda - and when he said “do not believe anything you see or hear”
I was stunned - and the other one that told me MAGA was real was his clinic comment again - the first eye opener dailies lol was to his new base and I quite - “I love the uneducated” and they all rose in a clap.
I knew we were in big trouble.
It takes years of not decades to debrief and reprogram the human mind - like any drug they have to want to unlearn and the public presser by the religion addicts cult society to feel they belong is just staggering but I think there’s hope in this the 21ST CENTURY as we try to leapfrog beyond the first quarter already - lol so I’m happy to hear this one will be moving very much faster as we recalibrate the big system defrag to get ourselves all realigned for a future that took the last half century into a trickle down rabbit hole.
Where capitalism finally eats their own lol 😉😎
I'm going to print this and place it in a frame on my wall.
You have described the audience that I write for, even named them--indirectly. "ChINO" a Christian In Name Only, sounds like a perfect name for so many who still hold on to that vacant spot they held in their hearts for a god they know isn't there: they go through the motions, but inside they know it's all a fantasy.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this: your story here is probably one of a million similar stories that I hope to hear from those who see my work--whether it be in articles or my book (when finished). You have inspired me to work harder to get it finished: we can see now that the time we are now in is becoming a time when people are becoming afraid, letting fear take root, and fear always makes people return to the concept of a god who will protect them--a god who isn't there, but even if he was, would be a monster even worse than Trump.
I also gleaned from this something new: perhaps a story of a place--a prison, a factory, an apartment complex--where a group of people are held in check by evil 'managers' and 'supervisors' who constantly threaten the group that the 'Warden' is going to show up and punish them: the idea that there is a looming figure with power requiring them to comply with all kinds of insanity, only to find out that the entity--the warden--does not in fact exist: this could be the basis for a strong short story. Maybe even call it "The Warden," a short tale about the way people act when controlled by fear.
Thank you again. I greatly appreciate you. Tim