tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17408971316380376632024-03-19T04:28:50.626-07:00The Rant Institutep michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.comBlogger1494125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-27079311665194942322024-03-19T04:27:00.000-07:002024-03-19T04:27:49.336-07:00<p>"I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider
ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority
behind it." </p><p>"Albert Einstein: The Human Side", edited by Helen Dukas
and Banesh Hoffman, and published by Princeton University Press. <br /></p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-53537943931396975532024-03-17T18:34:00.000-07:002024-03-18T19:31:07.524-07:00God vs Why<p> There is no greater curiosity than that of a child. And just as great as that curiosity is the creative process of understanding and assimilating information. God has so designed the human brain and nervous system that it needs to ask why as much as a tree needs water. And in answering that question, which it can in an infinite number of ways, it equally has the ability to design unique answers unto itself! And only our ability to ask and answer such questions is what makes us so unique. In fact, as much as a child needs love to thrive, which they need as much as sleep and water, a child loves to learn by asking why, and just as creatively imagining the answers. </p><p>Doing so only becomes a major problem when such a child insists their own answers are infallible, and everyone else must be crucified and burned for all eternity for daring to say otherwise. <br /></p><p>But then comes the problem - why? </p><p>Christianity teaches parents, via spiritual surrogate parents in the roles of priests and nuns, that children's curiosity must be channeled into a "love" of God - and not just any God, but their own particular brand of such a word. By "love," we really mean fear, since it is impossible to genuinely love that which we cannot understand, especially when we cannot understand why such a "God" needed to torture and punish an innocent Jesus in order to demonstrate his love for us, in order to save us from a hell God alone is responsible for creating and maintaining, rather than punishing and doing away with the devil - who God created, and maintains, and allows to do his worst without the slightest of interruptions - who God blames for luring us to disobey His command to obey a church, regardless of how many pedophiles it employees and protects. <br /></p><p>God, so it seems, created children with an insatiable curiosity, in order to create an institutional Church that would then channel that insatiable curiosity into the bottomless well that is the word God, which is a word that is as infinite as it is abstract, signifying nothing as much as it means anything you wish. <br /></p><p>God, as such, wanted an institutional church to act as an intellectual chastity belt on the infinite curiosity he designed us with, in which our brains can only grow by engaging such a curiously, so we would not ask questions that would lead us to see or interpret the word "God" as anything other than how His one "true" institutional Church - the Roman Catholic Church - defines such a word, regardless of how many pedophiles the church protects or other crimes it engages in. What a great plan!<br /></p><p>The question to all of this, of course, is why did such a "perfect" God feel compelled to create so sinful humans and command them to worship Him lest he cast them into hell forever for failing to do so, and reward them with eternal heaven for their obedience? What the hell does such a "God" gain from doing any of this? <br /></p><p>Why?</p><p>It is just such a question, so Christians will assure you, that countless numbers of people deserve to roast for all eternity, not for daring to ask, but for daring to doubt those who parrot back to them as an all encompassing answer, like that Raven from Poe's poem, the single yet meaningless word: "God," as if they want those asking the question to prove they deserve to be spared eternal fires of Auschwitz by being as robotic in their obedience as those offering such an answer are at being a parrot. <br /></p><p>Religion - in short - is an example of invasion of the body snatchers, and in the name of love and God, they will burn you alive if ever you dare to disagree with their claims that they and they alone are as infallible as a pet parrot. And for such parrots, it is impossible to be both free and fully obedient, for they either live in a cage of thinking, repeating like robots what they hear, or they do not, and sing whatever song they wish. The Christian sees the latter as a sin, despite the fact our brains were designed to require such freedom, even as those same Christians demand the freedom to force their own children not to ever exercise such a freedom.<br /></p><p>Good birds in never ask about the difference! No wonder they give those Polly's so many crackers when they flock together in their cages once a week. <br /></p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-62982403689112029422024-03-15T14:13:00.000-07:002024-03-15T14:13:53.919-07:00The Unreal "Thought System" of Religious Belief IV<p>"The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma," wrote Edward O. Wilson in <a href="https://infidels.org/affiliate.php?book=9780679450771">Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge</a>, "is that we evolved
genetically to accept one truth and discovered another." <span class="ILfuVd" lang="en">Like
Wilson's dilemma, Johnathan Haidt's two ways of finding truth were
accepted in
most pre-modern cultures as two universal ways of thinking, speaking,
and acquiring knowledge. While Wilson called the two roads to truth the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views, and Haidt called them
the lawyer and the scientist, the ancient Greeks called these two ways
of thinking mythos and logos. </span></p><p>"Is there a way
to erase the dilemma," Wilson went on to ask, "to resolve the contradictions between the
transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?" Answering his own question, Wilson wrote, "No, unfortunately,
there is not. Furthermore, a choice between them is unlikely to remain
arbitrary forever. The assumptions underlying the two world views are
being tested with increasing severity by cumulative verifiable knowledge
about how the universe works."<span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"> But from the viewpoint of the ancient Greeks, it appears that both Wilson and Haidt are only seeing through half of the lens of their own mind, and denying the other half exists at all. <br /></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"> Like science and empiricism, logos was
the a lens that saw the world through a pragmatic mode of thought. Like physics and medicine and rocket science, it had to conform to external reality because it enabled people to function in the world. This is essential to survival of a species. Indeed, logos constituted the collective
scientific understanding of the ancient world. But like science today, it could not answer
life's ultimate questions, or do much to assuage our grief. To do that, people turned to mythos, or what today we call myth. And to understand how these two perspectives reflect the two ways our minds work, we first have to understand the house in which these two ghosts live together: our psyche.<br /></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" lang="en">The word psychology is derived from two Greek words “psyche” and “logos.” Psyche means soul (life) and logos means <b>knowledge (explanation) or the study of the soul</b>. For the ancient Greek philosophers, logos was the sum of all logic, which they equated with</span><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" lang="en"> <b>a
universal, and therefore divine reason, immanent in nature, yet
transcending all oppositions and imperfections in the cosmos and
humanity</b>. This, of course, assumes we are capable of understanding not only what constitutes "perfection" regarding the cosmos itself, even though our understanding of it is woefully lacking, but what constitutes such perfection as defined by a divine and infinite intelligence, despite our limitations on the one hand, and our alleged sinful nature on the other. <br /></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" lang="en">While
logos captured the divine reasoning of the cosmos and all worldly knowledge, mythos captured the paradox of the human experience, which is both singular and universal. In one sense, mythos was singular because it reflected
something that only
happened once. In another sense, it conveyed the universal because it reflected something which happened
all the time. A
story about someone else's unique struggles is also a story about everyone's different struggles at the same
time. One person's quest to overcome cancer is another person's quest
to climb Mount Everest, or overcoming the effects of trauma or crippling self-doubt. </span><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" lang="en">All stories, movies, even Ted Talks, reflect this universality. Catholics imagine they are collectively "the body of Christ," for example, even though Jesus's experience was universal to all human beings, not just those who happen to subscribe to one particular brand of the Jesus story. </span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" lang="en">The Jesus story is not the fulfillment of all other stories, as such, but their embodiment, in the same way each of us is the embodiment of the story of the human race in different guises. </span><span>Catholic, after all, comes from the Greek adjective katholikos, which means '<i>universal</i>'. Ironically, such a word is now used by those who separate themselves from the rest of the universal body of humanity as a whole because they choose to "believe" they have been given divine knowledge from a God that allows them to know right from wrong not only better than others, but to do so with all of the "infallibility" of God Himself - the very same desire the serpent manufactured in Adam & Eve and then preyed upon to rob them of their state of harmony in the Garden of Eden. Their harmony came from accepting they were part of the universe, in other words, and their disharmony came from believing they had "become like God" in how they understood right and wrong.<br /></span></p><p><span>After they had convinced themselves they were more righteous in their "beliefs" than everyone else, they then blamed everyone who refused to believe the same thing for their suffering. If only everyone would believe it the same way they did, so the Christian reasoning goes, the world would feel so much better - at least for such Christians anyway, even if not for anyone else. In adopting such a perspective and doting oneself to never questioning it, such "believers" had separated themselves from the most natural, sacred, and divinely authored tradition of all - being part of the universal singular. </span></p><p><span> </span></p><br />p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-91822191112654500052024-03-15T06:56:00.000-07:002024-03-17T07:54:10.613-07:00The Unreal "Thought System" of Religious Belief V<p style="text-align: center;"><span> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" lang="en"> </span><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" lang="en">In
the days of Jesus and before, religion was not used to interpret all experiences through
the veil of beliefs in dogmatism, but was something that was intended to
help people understand how all experiences, however different and
unique, were always equally part of a shared human drama. The "living
word," in this sense, was the lives of every single person, each of whom
constituted a unique and holy gospel of experiences in the universal
book of life itself. Cultural theorist Norman Denizen called this idea
the universal singular. </span><span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>The Universal Singular <br /></span></p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" lang="en"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 132%;">The universal singular is a term that captures the paradoxical
idea that each of us is both unique and universal, and that our lives represent both a singular and a universal experience.<span>
Like light, this means we are both a particle and the whole wave. We
are not mere drops in the ocean, as Alan Watts said, but the ocean
itself experiencing consciousness as droplets. </span>Like a particle or a drop of water, our experiences are singular, because there
are things that are unique to our own biology and psychology, as well as our backgrounds,
upbringing, choices, and personalities. At the same time, each of us also
represents a wave or the whole ocean because there is “something universal about our cultures and, indeed, the human
experience.” </span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 132%;">This
duality is the bread of life itself, which each of us equally shares in
just by being alive. For it allows us to listen to the experiences of others,
no
matter how vastly different they may be from our own, even if they lived
on the
other side of the planet and hundreds of thousands of years ago, and
nevertheless see, and even identify with, the universal moments in their
stories.<span> It is also what allows us to do the same thing with fictional characters from plays to novels and film. </span>Fairy tales, sacred stories, poems,
myths and legends, all convey such universal singular truths, and often in ways
which make it impossible to distinguish one genre of storytelling from another. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 132%;">Yet the “universal truth” such stories convey are never in the forms of<span> </span>the
names or the details of the characters
themselves in any given story, which is to worship a cult of personality
or a mere brand label, but
always in the experience of overcoming obstacles and overwhelming odds,
slogging through hell and back while slaying your demons and dragons
along the way. Such ideas are mere metaphors for the struggles in life
that are as universal to the human experience as feeling the sun on our
face and raindrops on our tongue. That struggle is the true cross of
the human condition which each of us carries from the cradle to the
grave. Before being demoted to the rank of fairy-tale and
replaced with religions that were more obsessed with the characters they
portrayed than any of the lessons they taught or lived by, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 132%;">this had always been the function of
mythos</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 132%;">. <span> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" lang="en">Through
the rhetorical alchemy of St. Augustine and others, however, one
version of mythos was claimed to be divine and all others condemned as
counterfeit. This was like five blind men having radically different ideas about what an elephant looks like, and then one suddenly declaring that their perspective is the result of divine revelation and is therefore infallible. Doing so allowed that brand of mythos to be commodified as
"the fruit of the vine" that would "make you like God, knowing right
from wrong" - exactly as the serpent promised Adam & Eve it would. </span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" lang="en">And ever since, that one brand of mythos has been masquerading as the
one and only "true" divine logos. The miracle of this transformation of
mythical truth into scientific truth, which is reflected in the
consecrating of bread and wine into divine flesh and blood at every
Catholic mass, is how it took the mutual need for both and began conflating one for the other, even
though they are not only different, but at times even mutually
exclusive. This was seen in understandings about everything from the age
of the universe to debates about whether the earth was the center of
the universe or not, to which gods were worshiped and by what names they were called. <br /></span></p><p> Since mythos invites our creativity to "come and play," allowing each of us to exercise our unique perspectives to create a story about who we are and the Eden we are born into, logos - which many Christians now call "God" - was often as subjective in our understanding of it as mythos. Even
in the fields of science where objectivity is regarded as the greatest
thing, often people’s views of evidence are highly correlated to their
vested interests because when assessing emotionally relevant data our
brains automatically include our wants and dreams! Negative as this
sounds, the distortion of reality can be a positive mechanism because it
keeps us going against the stream. It is also what makes it possible to overcome the effects of our biases, ironically enough, by viewing things from various points of views.</p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" lang="en">And
the divine spark that allowed for such a transformation was the very
thing that religion condemns as a sin, for which Christ himself was
condemned as a heretic for exercising, even though it is the only thing
about us that can be said to be made in the image and likeness of an
infinite intelligence that created everything - </span><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" lang="en">our
infinite capacity for creativity. And what crucified that capacity as a
heretic was a priestly class that had claimed their understanding of the nature of the elephant we call God was divine and therefore infallible. And their evidence for such claims came from oral traditions that were thousands of years old, having been transformed into the amber of the written word, and nailed to the cross of a page, which they kept prisoner like Dorothy in the Emerald Palace in their temple, in the tomb of a
holy tome. <br /></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" lang="en"><br /><br /></span></p><p> </p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-50211545607451194972024-03-14T06:54:00.000-07:002024-03-14T12:53:46.607-07:00The Unreal "Thought System" of Religious Beliefs III<p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en">The popular notion that people need an ego to live and succeed in life is untrue. We can only begin to appreciate who we truly are when we lessen our need to prove ourselves," especially the need to prove ourselves as being worthy to be here in the first place. </span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en">According to Christianity, heaven is a place all of us must prove we are worthy of reaching. And until we have and are properly forgiven, hell is a place we are born deserving. For some, gaining access to such a paradise requires merely submission to the will of God, as an act of faith, even though no one can agree, or often make sense out of, what God's will even is. And those with different opinions about that divine will have been killing each other for thousands of years. For others, faith requires works, as if one must prove they are worthy of being moved from the cotton plantation of planet Earth to the mansion of heaven. All those who fail in this endeavor deserve the eternal tortures of hell they inherit, according to this thinking. In a similar way, then, earth is also a proving ground, where a person must prove they are worthy of being human through their willingness to act like a robot in how they obey a Church and a religion. And failure to prove such worthiness results in a person being treated like a Jew in the eternal ovens of Auschwitz. <br /></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en">"As we let go of our thoughts of who we think we are, our insecurity begins to lift." It is then that we can begin to live outside of the barnyard of our "beliefs," the temple of our thought system, the Iron Maiden of our ego. Only then do we connect with our healthy functioning. </span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en">Shedding our ego like dead skin, allows us to see new options and alternatives that were previously hidden from us, which our ego, to defend its existence, blinded us from seeing as a viable option. </span><span><i>The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die</i>, wrote Nietzsche, "as well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind." The addict who claims they are not an addict because they can stop using their drug of choice whenever they want to - they just don't want to - is no different from the person who insists they can change their mind whenever they want to, because they have "free will," but then never does. To never change one's mind requires always looking at new information, and old information, from the perspective that none of it should ever lead a person to see things differently than they always have. <br /></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en">Whenever we are able to step outside the confines of our thought system and drop the thoughts we have that are interfering with our well-being, we step out of the temple of our ego that serves as the tomb of our potential. Such a tomb feels like our comfort zone. But only by stepping out of it can our minds open to the possibility of seeing ourselves in a new light.</span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en">A thought system is based on thinking, and is the opposite of love, which is pure feeling. On the one hand, a thought system loves only its thoughts, and sees its perspective as superior to any other possible way of looking at or thinking about things. It strives, therefore, to always prove itself worthy of being retained and depended on. This is like a parent of 12 children who decides they love the one who reminds them of their ideal self the most, who therefore abandons the other 11. </span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en">As such, a thought system loves to play a never ending game with thoughts, that is, with itself. Like playing chess with yourself, it loves the challenge of validating itself as useful and worthy of being venerated and loved, more than any other thought system. It does this by using itself to navigate an unsolvable problem. We assume a thought system is to solve problems, but that is part of the allure and the illusion. The problem the thought system is forever trying to solve, like Sisyphus pushing a boulder, must be and remain always unsolvable. Why? Because a thought system is a trouble shooter. But a troubleshooter can never be satisfied because if there is nothing to troubleshoot, they are out of a job, and have no identity. The need to find imperfection, as such, is its own reward, either in ourselves or others, or both., because it means our thought system is working. And every time it finds an imperfection, be it within or without, it triggers a reward by releasing dopamine. </span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en">The more secure your environment, the more able you are to admit mistakes and change on the one hand, and the more willing you are to try something new. People who gravitate toward the theater, for example, often feel flexible enough in their own skin to try being as many different someone's as possible. The less secure your environment, however, the less able you are to change or let go of the thought system that has kept you safe.<br /></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"> But the problem the thought system is trying to resolve must also remain unresolvable. For we do not continue to think about a question or an equation that we have already solved. We do not continue to read the same mystery book or watch the same mystery movie over and over again, foregoing all other books or movies, long after we already know the answer to the mystery. No matter how much we love the story, the dopamine it is capable of releasing in our brain only gets increasingly smaller and smaller, until we receive none at all. This is why we need constant reinterpretation of even the most sacred of stories, because, like a perpetual treadmill in our mind, we need new mysteries to continue to generate the release of more dopamine.</span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"> Atheists who argue with "believers," by comparison, never realize that by doing so, they are providing the believer with an environment to flex the artistic creativity of their thought system, which releases more dopamine in the brains of both the believer and the atheist, only ensuring both will become ever more entrenched in their view as they becomes more addicted to the argument-game, regardless of what is true. Truth, in this sense, is simply the euphoria one feels from proving they are "right," if only to themselves. Doing that reinforces our dependence on, and belief in, the superiority of our thought system.<br /></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en">Love, on the other hand, is not about thinking, it's about being guided by feelings, intuition, and trust (or what religion calls "faith"). Love does not think in terms of what is right or wrong, so it does not need to analyze or argue for what it desires. Lovers do not endlessly analyses their love for each other, or argue why they love, lest they find either no solid reason for loving each other as they do, or the reasons they find loose their luster over time </span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en">Love lets go, like falling into a pool of water, while thought systems hang on to every thought. The former wants to swim, while the other holds onto a buoy of a belief, and uses it to chase its own reflection. Love says "It's okay," while a thought system says "figure this out or else!" Love doesn't care if we agree about an idea, but our thought system does. To validate itself, and its' worth, a thought system must always win. It enjoys competition, as a result, and hates to loose. Love does not compete, and keeps no record of wrongs, as it says in Corinthians, either of others or oneself. </span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en">Healthy functioning and love are similar, and come from a place of acceptance and trust. In our mind, it is a peaceful grove in which we sit enjoying the sensation of the sun on our face, the breeze through our hair, the smells of spring in our nostrils, the sound of birds and bees serenading us with the songs of life. A thought system or belief systems are a barking dog, threatening to bite us if we fail to head their call, their warnings, their invitation to exercise them, and feed them, by worrying about their logic, their intricacies. One wishes only to be, the other is always strategizing how to convince us to depend upon them by winning. One bathes in the sun, the other plays chess. and we are all made up of both, but fail to notice how we need these two sides to live in harmony with each other so we can too. </span></p><br />p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-76216252511371938722024-03-12T05:12:00.000-07:002024-03-14T06:22:09.376-07:00The Unreal "Thought System" of Religious Beliefs Part II<p>The psychologist Jonathan Haidt said there are two ways to get to the truth: the way of the scientist and the way of the lawyer. The scientist observes evidence and looks for patterns and relationships, testing theories to explain them. The lawyer starts with the preferred conclusion and then looks for ways of interpreting everything as evidence to support his view while also trying to discredit evidence or arguments to the contrary. Both are equally trying to find truth, but the two kinds of truth they are trying to find are very different from each other. But just because they are different doesn't mean they are mutually exclusive or wholly incompatible with each other. Rather, they are merely two ways our mind has for perceiving what we call reality. <br /></p><p>Both of these perspectives live within each of us, vying for control of the meaning we give to our perceptions and, by extension, our lives. The difference is that one is trying to express a more rationalistic truth while the other seeks to express a more emotional truth. Both truths are equally valid, mind you, but because they are not the same, they are often perceived to be in conflict with each other. Yet the real conflict is the person's inability to see how two different kinds of truth are like noticing that light is both a particle and a wave. The problem is that although our brains happen to be decent scientists, they are truly outstanding lawyers. The former is more a function of our rational brain observing our emotional brain, like a parent watching over their child, while the latter is more of a function of our childlike emotional brain trying to manipulate our parental brain. </p><p>Environment is crucial in nurturing our ability to not only become aware of, but to toggle between engaging, our inner scientist and lawyer. The latter is the press secretary and public relations expert for our own beliefs, while we use the former to critique everyone else's beliefs but our own. The inner lawyer operates under pressure, which sharpens our focus and enhances our ability to see patterns even where none exist. The inner scientist seeks to learn by painstakingly piecing together the tiniest of pieces to understand the whole puzzle. The former reflects the way we remember things like the logic of the multiplication tables, the latter reflects how we learn that logic, which is to do our multiplication tables for homework, night after bloody night. We learn in long-hand but we remember in short hand. And these two ways of learning and remembering merely reflect the mechanical way we slowly advance the one, and the creative way we remember the other. <br /></p><p> Most of the time, our inner lawyer and our inner scientist interact with each other differently when dealing with our own beliefs versus dealing with the beliefs of others. Rarely operating without each exerting some influence on the other, we argue like a lawyer for our own beliefs but are as skeptical as a scientist of the beliefs of others. And we do so out of a need to defend an ego that, unlike a child learning a new language or a computer playing chess, doesn't like to be wrong. That's because pure logic, like pure numbers that computers use to calculate, feel no emotional pain from a wrong answer. But our egos do. <br /></p><p>For a variety of reasons, both our inner scientist and our inner lawyer are limited to interfacing with reality through the stained-glass windows of perception. And the windows of perception are stained by experience and the stories we tell ourselves. But the former strives to be aware of how the stain on the glass colors our perception by testing and questioning both the story we tell ourselves, along with new information and the internal biases that color our interpretations of such information, while the latter strives to find ways of interpreting new information in ways that always conform to, and therefore only confirm, the stain of the story and "beliefs" it started with. One strives to scrub away the biases that color its view, greeting everything that makes it more aware of such biases as a friend and a teacher, while the other treats its biases as sacred traditions or revelations that must be defened or even worshiped, and treats anything and anyone who reveals such biases as simply a story as an enemy bent on deception. </p><p> More than anything else, our inner lawyer is trained in the school of hard knocks that is our experiences. Whether mostly supportive or critical, such experiences trains our inner lawyer to tell us a story in which we see ourselves in either a more positive or negative light. While it's hard to fool the internal scientist with blatant lies, the ambiguity of information on the one hand, and the capacity for creativity on the other, allows our internal lawyer a lot of room to maneuver - especially when the lawyer is free to bend, and at times uses the Trojan horse of rhetoric to hide how it simply breaks, the rules of logic. Our inner lawyer, in other words, does a great job of making the voice of our inner child sound as authoritative as our inner parental scientist, while dismissing the critiques of our inner parental scientist as simply the voice of a naïve child. This is why we so often have a view of ourselves, whether overly negative or positive, that is different from the view others may have of us. </p><p>Our inner scientist and lawyer are both just trying to help us understand the world around us. The difference is that the former is more collaborative with different perspectives and open to change while the latter is more adversarial and defensive and looking for those who agree with it. One is more liberal, in this sense, the other more conservative. While both are motivated by the same desire to protect us, one grows out of an environment that nurtures authenticity and self-compassion, and sees change as the only constant, while the other grows out of an environment dominated by attachment and self-criticism, and sees perfection as an unchanging point to aspire to. For one, the infinite is an ever evolving thing, for the other it is as fixed and established as God. <br /></p><p>As Richard Carlson explains, "All of us, from the time we are infants, have a natural desire to make
sense out of life. We relate facts, compare events, and make
determinations out of what we see. In the process, we automatically form
thought systems: a self contained thinking unit through which we
interpret the world." Like a pair of sunglasses we never take off, those
sunglasses color our perceptions of everything we are exposed to. It's
as if our head is a fishbowl full of water and our mind's eye is the
goldfish that swims in that water. Every experience we have adds its own
coloring to the water our mind's eye is swimming in and peering out at
the world through. So natural and gradual is the process by which the clear water of our own mind is colored by experiences and the meaning we give them that we are altogether unaware it
is happening at all. The wisdom of age, as such, occurs when what colors that water begins to fade, and we once again see life as we are about to exit it as clearly as we saw it upon our entrance into it. <br /></p><p>The difference between our inner scientist and our inner lawyer is that the former strives to become aware of, and to wash out as much as possible, the coloring that has been added to that water, that make perceptions so subjective, while the latter either denies that any such coloring has been added or is skewing their perception or that, if it has or is, it only helps to enhance their ability to see more objectively. Both strive to reveal a deeper truth, but one sees experience as clouding our ability to see a deeper revelation while the other sees experience as sharpening our perceptions. </p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">"For
example, if you grew up in a family where there was a huge emphasis on
money, where every dinner conversation centered around the subject, that
information would be stored as the core of your thought system. Thus
you would be predisposed to placing an enormous emphasis on money. And
because your thought system is filled up with certain types of
information, you simply never question your own way of looking at life -
it just seems right to you." The concept of "money," as such, because the filter through which you see the world, without realizing that other people see the world through a different filter. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">"Let
me make one thing perfectly clear," Carlson continues, "there's nothing wrong with your
thought system. The way it developed was innocent. You were simply given
a set of facts that were represented as "truth" and unless you are a
very rare exception to the human species, you bought the information
hook, line, and sinker. What else could you do? You were a child eager
to learn about life. When you parents and other important role models
gave you information (being purely innocent, and thus lacking any understanding of deception) you accepted it as truthful. Overtime, you stored
this so-called truth in your memory until you could see life no other
way, all the while developing conditioned responses to certain
information that seemed important and appropriate (and truthful) to you."</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">"To
compound the problem, thought systems have a very strong, almost
insidious tendency to validate themselves. Because your thought system
is filled with information about your own past, it looks for examples to
prove to itself that it is "right."' Because the information we are
taught as children is the substance that our memories of ourselves is
comprised, our desire to confirm that information is also a desire to
confirm who we see ourselves to be is as valid as the beliefs we feel
our identity is made up of."</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"> In the Bible, God describes Himself as "the
great I am." The "I am" in this case is the identity we create from the
beliefs that were used like scaffolding to build the skeleton of our
spiritual ego. Like Dr. Frankenstein, with parts from the graves of old
philosophies, religions, and cultures, our mind sutures an ego together into a seamless garment of a story we tell ourselves, a story
we relied on to become who we see ourselves to be today. And to deny
the story, or even just one piece or detail of the story, can shatter
our belief of who we are, and destroy who we tell ourselves "I am."<br /></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">Because
of the self-validating nature of our thought systems, we will always be
tempted to continue thinking in the way that we are accustomed. Not
doing so is like cutting off our own emotional and intellectual roots.
If "I am" not who "I am," in other words, then who am I? <br /></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">'The
concept of an ego is very closely related to that of a thought system.
Both are thought-created. The truth is that human beings don't even have
egos - there is no such thing. People only have egos because they think
they do. Your ego is your idea of (thoughts about) who you think you are
(about who "I am"). Descarte's idea of "I <b><i>think</i></b> therefore
I am" reflects the idea that we have ideas of who we think we are. "I
am ..." you name it: a Catholic, a Republican, an accountant, a football
fan, a human being, you name it. What we see ourselves to be is the
result of thinking of what "I am." And video games, sports, movies,
stories, drugs, addictions, etc, all free us from thinking of what "I
am" and allows us to see ourselves as someone, something, totally
different.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">The lawyer inside of us wants to cling to one story of who "I am," when we fear being someone, or something, else. But it will also strive to argue for being whoever "I am" wishes to become when we are not afraid, when we feel accepted as being able to be anything and everything we wish. The scientist within us tries mostly to see why our inner lawyer argues for the former in some people, and the latter in others. <br /></span></span></p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-19302232486117194452024-03-10T07:38:00.000-07:002024-03-12T04:40:45.025-07:00 The Unreal "Thought System" of Religious Beliefs<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="JCzEY ZwRhJd"><span class="CSkcDe">"Everything that is real was imagined first"</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="JCzEY ZwRhJd"><span class="CSkcDe">Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="JCzEY ZwRhJd"><span class="CSkcDe"> </span></span> <br /></p><p>Are thoughts real? To those who have them, they can be as real as they are. Indeed, PTSD is the result of being stuck in a thought from the past, where a memory becomes an iron maiden, and the pain it causes is as real as any physical pain. In fact, some studies show that psychological pain can be even more painful, and therefore more real, than physical pain. Even Descartes linked thoughts to reality when he had the thought, "I think therefore I am." But if the thought Descartes had put into words wasn't real, than he was no more real than his thought. And this is because, <span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">according to psychologist Richard Carlson, thoughts aren't real.</span></span> And since "God" is an immaterial intelligence, isn't God therefore just an idea? And therefore no more real than a thought about what the word "God" means? <br /></p><p>What are thoughts, anyway? Like soda bubbles floating up from the chaos of our subconscious mind, they piece together our perception of reality. Like thoughts, so <span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"><span><span>isolated
material particles are also abstractions, wrote Niels Bohr in 1934, "their properties being definable
and observable only through their interaction with other systems." From this, Bohr concluded that "Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real." And if what we call material reality cannot be considered "as real," what then can we make of our thoughts and ideas? <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">"Your thoughts aren't real," writes Carlson in his book "<i>You Can Feel Good Again.</i>" Rather, he continues, "when we think, we are using our imagination to create an image or picture in our mind of an event rather than the real thing." This is like watching a made-for-television movie about an event, like the American Revolution or you high school glory days, rather than living through such events. But our imagination is colored by our particular perception, and our perceptions, which are subjective to each individual, are effected as much by our physiology as by our experiences. Physiologically, lack of sleep or water or food, stress, or too much sugar, the ingestion of drugs or an allergic reaction, and numerous other things, can all effect our senses, warping our perceptions. And "beliefs," trauma, and other experiences likewise effect our emotional state, which in turn effects how we see the world and ourselves within it. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"><span><span>In the same way light is both a particle and a wave, so Carlson may be only half right.</span></span></span></span><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"><span><span> Thoughts have a symbiotic relationship with our perceptions. And our perceptions are real, even if what we perceive is mostly a dream. Like the duality of light, so our thoughts are therefore both real to us and also imagined; both our reality and a dream. They are real because they have real world effects, from our health to our emotional states to shaping the world we live in. But they are also imagined, for they are merely ideas, regardless of how effective they are in animating and shaping our existence.In this sense, thoughts, especially about the past and the future, are like ghosts from the sub-cellar of our subconscious mind that haunts our conscious thoughts. <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">Thoughts are colored by experience. For those who grow up in more secure environments, both emotionally and financially, an adverse event can serve as a learning experience. Falling off of a bicycle is merely information for how to better ride the bicycle. For those who grow up in less secure environments, for lack of safety or resources, the same event can lead a person to feel like a failure, which may then teach them to avoid taking chances. For such people, falling off of a bicycle teaches them to stay away from bicycles altogether. And if such a fear or anxiety is cultivated into a virtue that bestows status on a person for practicing it, it may even becomes a dislike of those who build them and like to ride them. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">While both perspectives are attempts to analyze the same event, mining it for information, the former feels encouraged and supported to use their rational brain to learn how to do better, while the latter may feel judged and condemned and uses their rational brain to defend themself from the harm of feeling judged and condemned again. In this sense, the rational brain is simply the tail being wagged by our emotional brain. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">To use Brene Brown's ideas about the difference between guilt and shame, the former feels like they are only guilty of failing to ride the bike, while the latter feels ashamed because they, personally, are a failure. The guilty rider can learn to improve their ability to ride a bike, but no amount of trying to learn how to ride a bike will help the person ashamed of being a failure. And because no amount of efforts can change the fact they are a failure, they are forced to wait for a savior to rid the worlds of bicycles and those who make and ride them. In both cases, the thoughts are the shadow of the experience one gleams from their environment, through which they project those influences onto the walls of the reality around them. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">Unique to each of us, our experiences are what lead us to form our thought systems, and whether we relate to such systems in a healthy or unhealthy way. "Your thought system is concerned only with the details of your life, how you compare with others, your worldly pursuits, your intellect, your ego gratification, and your endless supply of wants and needs." While wants and needs are simple and satiable for a soul, it should be noted, they are infinite and insatiable for an ego. The soul wants merely to live, bathed in the gratitude of each and every breath. The ego wants to live forever, free of the worry that, like even the universe as a whole, it will one day perish. The former recognizes it is connected and merely a part of the whole, while the latter wishes to see itself as greater than the whole. Yet our thoughts, which emanate from the one, become the dreams we wish to come true of the other. <br /></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">"You can't satisfy your thought system, because its job is to think, compare, contrast, and analyze. It is concerned with what happens in your life. The set of guidelines within which it operates is totally inconsistent with enjoyment. When you align yourself exclusively with your thought systems, as so many people do, you are doomed to a life of frustration and unhappiness. When Woody Allan said " i would never join a club that would have me as a member," he is actually articulating how a thought system can lead to frustration and unhappiness. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">According to Carlson, a thought system (TS) is different from healthy functioning (HF). The TS is the result of conditional experiences, through which we perceive events. HF is concerned with how we relate to what happens in our life. The TS is the thinker that thinks, strategizing moves as if life were a game of chess. HF, however, observes the TS to determine if it is strategizing from a perspective of fear and insecurity or a place of love, acceptance, and support. In the former, cold logic is relied on to defend against threats real or imagined. This leaves a person in a constant state of hyper-vigilance, as if they are living in a war zone. Such a state is itself a kind of hellish realm in which a person is trapped.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">It is important here to understand the difference between "healthy functioning" and unhealthy functioning (UF). HF is our ability to consciously detach from a thought system in order to observe it, learn about it, and thereby strive to better understand what it is and why we have it. UF, on the other hand, is an inability to consciously engage in HF. As a result, a person is either unable or unwilling to see their thought system as being merely a learned system of thinking that does not necessarily perceive reality in an accurate light, and mostly because their are too dependent upon that thought system to be able to separate from it, or they unconsciously dissociate from the parts of themselves that do not conform to the rules imposed by such a thought system. Put another way, HF is the ability to consciously dissociate our true self from out thought systems, while UF is either the inability to dissociate from a thought system, which is often due to unconscious reasons, or an unconscious dissociation from a thought system caused by how incompatible such a system is to a person's authentic self. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">The Divided Self <br /></span></span></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The unconscious inability to dissociate from a thought system, or the unconscious involuntary dissociation from such a system, is reflected in the Bible verse quoted by Abraham Lincoln that “a divided house
cannot stand.” And nothing divides the house of our own mind more than starving
a child of unconditional love and providing love based on judgement and approval
instead. Such a divide and conquer strategy that convinces a child to
prioritize attachment to a thought system over authenticity - and the Christian is convinced that their "authentic self" is a born sinner that needs saving, and anyone who dares to believe otherwise deserves to be tortured for all eternity - was explained by Scottish psychologist
R. D. Laing, in his book <i>The Divided Self</i>. In it, Laing explains
his theory about the origins of such psychotic symptoms, and how they can
result from a person’s mind undergoing a form of mitosis by splitting in
two. </span></p>
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the person’s personality, according to Laing, occurs “along the line of
cleavage between his outward compliance and his inner withholding of
compliance.” This happens when insecurity about one's existence prompts a
defensive reaction in which the “self” splits into separate components, the
“real self” and the “false self,” generating the psychotic symptoms characteristic
of schizophrenia. “In conformity,” he explains, “what one perceives or fancies
to be the thing one should be in the eyes of others becomes “the false-self,” a
concept that Stephen King refers to in <i>The Shining</i> as a “false face.”
This thing “may be a phoney sinner as well as a phoney saint,” Laing continues.
“In the schizoid person, however, the whole of his being does not conform and
comply in this way.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shame is key. In Religion, we are
taught to feel ashamed for being merely human or having human desires. Because
of beliefs in the stain of original sin, religious shame is not simply about
what sins we commit, but about the fact we are born sinners. In recovering from
trauma, a child first has to unlearn beliefs about themself as being unworthy
or inherently flawed, so they can see that their feelings of shame over being
born broken are, in fact, a lie, and therefore are nothing to feel ashamed
of. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Guilt is different. We feel guilt
for something we've done wrong that we can improve on or avoid doing wrong
again. We learn how to add and subtract, for example, or not to play baseball
near the neighbor’s house after we break their window with our baseball. Shame
is something we can't stop doing, however, because it is the result of
something being wrong with us. We either can't do simple arithmetic or we can't
seem to care if we break a window or two with a baseball, and perhaps because
we like to do so. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shame is a form of blame of who and
what we are, while guilt is about what we did. Guilt is something we can
save ourselves from by learning to do better, but we need a “savior” to
overcome our shame, because we are powerless to change being born with
sin-stained soul. One says we are ugly ducklings that must be given angels
wings by a God for us to ever become a swan, which we are rewarded with after
we die but only if we spent enough of our life trying to sell our Christian
brand. The other starts with the premise that we are swans that have been
traumatized into believing, and therefore manipulated into accepting, that we
are born with souls that are the spiritual equivalent of ugly ducklings. </span></p>
<p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"> </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"> <br /></span></span></p><br />p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-23295138531963413982024-03-09T15:35:00.000-08:002024-03-14T19:36:15.093-07:00Religious Trauma Redux<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">There are as many different Christian "gods," and Christianity
is practiced in as many different ways, as there are Christians. And like
everything else, some are better than others. As an institutionalized idea, however, Christianity requires children born with the souls of spiritual swans to believe they are born with the soul of an ugly
duckling. Why do people willingly believe such a thing? Because, when given a choice between the anxiety about the unknown and a "belief" that provides some relief from such anxiety, people will often opt for the latter. And this is especially true of those suffering from trauma, of which addiction to anything that alleviates such suffering - especially magical "beliefs" that promise "salvation" from such an internal hell - is common. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">As a form of spiritual medicine for the anxieties generated by the ever growing number of uncertainties of life, Christianity sells itself as the only "true" cure. That cure comes in the form of the self-shaming beliefs it requires its spiritual patients to "believe" they are born afflicted with. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Selling itself as indispensable
for shaping moral development due to the stain of original sin it requires its adherents to accept mars their souls from conception, the Roman
Catholic Church claims to be the handmaiden of God, one charged with treating Catholics as if
they were her children. But if she is the surrogate mother to our spiritual
development, requiring children to accept such "beliefs" as infallibly true means she is a mother suffering from <span style="background: white; color: #4d5156;">Munchausen syndrome by proxy - </span><span style="background: rgb(211, 227, 253); color: #040c28;">a mental illness and a form of child
abuse</span><span style="background: white; color: #4d5156;">. And what those who accept such claims as their greatest "truth" come to
define as “love,” as a result, is really fear generated in response to such
abuse. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Munchausen syndrome describes when the caretaker of a
child, most often a mother, either makes up fake symptoms or causes real
symptoms to make it look like the child is sick. On the one hand, the Catholic
Church has a need to make up fake symptoms like the plague of "original sin" so it can claim to be only institution God provided with the cure to fix the
spiritual ailments it tells its followers they must "believe" they are all born suffering from. On
the other hand, if every child is indeed born suffering from the defect of
original sin, then the God who gives the "gift of life" to such defective
souls does so out of a need to recruit people like a Kardashian seeking
Instagram followers. While any Catholic would be horrified to discover a parent
does such a thing, and would be even more horrified to discover that others
worship such a parent, all Catholics worship a God who, by ensuring each and
every soul born into the world is unnecessarily suffering from the stain of
original sin - which such a God could as easily withhold from every child as he
choose to withhold it from his Jesus avatar - does this same thing to every
child ever born.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Children raised in such emotional environments
are conditioned to conflate real love with artificial love. The former
cultivates connection through the development of one’s authenticity, while the
latter cultivates attachment by conflating authenticity with devotion to a
religious brand of perception. The lack of genuine love can severely damage our
emotional development, opening the door to the ability to condition children
into emotional dependence upon a “savior” or a religion. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To see the devastating impact that
a lack of genuine love can have on healthy human development, consider the
study by Dr. Rene Spitz in the 1940’s, which was controversially repeated in
the Harlow Study of the 1960’s.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spitz examined institutionalized children that
were raised in a nursing home. While these children were properly fed and taken
care of, short staff meant that many were deprived of touch and affection. The
result was devastating. By 2 years, a third had died. After 3 years, those who
had managed to survive could not walk or talk. And after 40 years, 21 were
still living in an institution. These same children also showed progressive
mental deterioration, extreme bodily retardation, and lowered resistance to
disease. Spitz ultimately concluded from his study that such damage inflicted
on children during their first year of life was irreparable. In the 1960s,
Harry Harlow performed a similar experiment by separating baby monkeys from
their mothers. Doing so led to a degree of social isolation “so devastating and
debilitating that it almost obliterated the animals socially.”</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: "times",serif;"></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Love's
Near Enemy </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The effects
seen in the Spitz and the Harlow studies demonstrate how “man does not live on
bread alone,” because a total lack of love, even when all the food and shelter
needed to thrive was provided, resulted in death or deforms a person’s natural physical,
emotional, and social development. This is like a child dying from a lack of
water, because the doctors didn’t realize we can’t live on bread alone. But what
happens when you supply a kind of “love” that is more like kool-aid than
genuine water, and addict children to preferring the artificial sweetener in
the former even though 70% their own bodies is the latter? To a blind person,
water and kool-aid feel the same, and to a colorblind person they even look the
same. And teaching children to perceive the world in black and white terms
color blinds them from seeing the difference between the water of true love and love’s kool-aid twin: attachment. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buddhists have two concepts that capture the
idea of things that look the same but are opposites, like reflections in a
mirror. Called “far enemies and “near enemies,” the former reflect polar
opposites but the latter reflects mirrored opposites. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While
far enemies are the most obvious to us, like love and hate, near enemies are
much sneakier and harder to spot because they look nearly identical. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Near
enemies” appear similar to the desired one, the way water and kool-aid can look
so similar, especially to the color blind person, but in fact are counterfeits of
the real thing</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
And because they look so similar, what is sometimes offered as a form of love
can be the difference between raising your child on pure kool aid, which is a
manufactured commodity that preys on our taste buds for profit, or on pure water, which we
have lived on for millions of years, is as free as air, and is as natural to us as a mother’s milk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With roots in
Buddhist psychology, “near enemy” refers to <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a mental state that mimics a positive emotion but in truth undermines it</span>.
Unlike its opposite, which is easy to spot, the “near enemy” of a positive
emotion flies under the radar and damages us from within. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although
as small as a butterfly in appearance, like the effects found in the Spitz and Harlow studies, the difference between love and its’
near enemy can be as destructive as a hurricane in its emotional and long term
effects. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Each of the qualities of the
awakened heart," explains psychologist Jack Kornfield, "such as love,
joy and peace, have these “near enemies”—aspects which mimic and limit them.
While the "far enemy of love is hatred, the near enemy of love is
attachment." Attachment, which can occur when we require someone's
approval of us, masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person (because
I need something from them).” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll
love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"This isn’t the fullness of
love," however. "Instead there is attachment—there is clinging and
fear (of judgment and disapproval). True love allows, honors, and appreciates;
attachment grasps, demands, needs, and aims to possess. If we examine our own
attachment with compassion, we can see how it is constricted, fear-based and
conditional; it offers love only to certain people in certain ways—it is exclusive.
Then we can practice opening to love, in the sense of <i>metta</i>, used by the
Buddha—a universal, heartfelt feeling of caring and connectedness.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Important to understand here is that both love and attachment are necessary for healthy emotional development. We need attachment just as much as we need love. The problem is that, while attachment is important for bonding with friends, families, and tribes, so is authenticity is important for becoming uniquely ourselves. The two are often presented as if they are in conflict, between pure liberty and pure loyalty, but they are not. Love that is unconditional cultivates the courage to find one's authenticity, and nothing forges loyalty more than being accepted for who we are. Love that is conditional, on the other hand, can so addict us to a need for attachment that it cripples or even completely overrides a person's ability to become authentic. In fact, it can so completely replace a person's need for authenticity that a person can become convinced that their most authentic self is to seek pure attachment - to a religion, or a God. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is also important to note a tandem relationship between attachment and dopamine in our brains. When our need for attachment surpasses our need for authenticity, it begins to be experienced as a fear of rejection. A fear of rejection triggers the same neurotransmitter in our
brain as love: oxytocin. And this is in part why the fear which the near enemy of
love creates can feel indistinguishable from real love, especially for those
who have never had pure love undiluted by needs of approval. This is why love
for some feels like unconditional acceptance, while for others, the ultimate
"love" comes from God's final and incontestable judgement, of who is worthy
or unworthy of salvation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now consider how your brain reacts to getting approval. </span><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">When a social media user gets a
like, a retweet, or an emoticon notification, the brain receives a flood of
dopamine and sends it along reward pathways. It feels wonderful, but it
also acts to reinforce our need to satisfy the feeling next time, to see approval and validation from others, again and again and again. </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dopamine is also activated by drugs such as cocaine and nicotine so no wonder some people say they feel addicted to love!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">A molecule called vasopressin is also released as we form attachments. Linked to territorial behavior this molecule can, in healthy relationships, increase
feelings of loyalty and causing people to feel protective of their
partners whilst promoting fidelity. When that partner is a God, the <span style="font-size: small;">fidelity becomes God's handmaiden - the Church. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Like a seesaw, a rising need for attachment due to insecurities about this life or the next, can result in smothering our need for authenticity in its crib. <br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As Brene Brown pointed out, in this way, the near
enemy can promote tribe loyalty while also driving separation, both from our own authenticity and, as a result, the ability to
recognize in others the difference between authenticity and approval-seeking. The latter often comes in the form of status seeking. Such separation begins with a parent
teaching a child to see themselves as a born sinner, one that can only be saved
from damnation through a willingness to conform to the rules proscribed by a
religion. While love must be unconditional to cultivate authenticity which envelopes us like a suit of
armor that, like bamboo, is strong but extremely flexible, the inauthenticity
that results from being nourished by the near-enemy of love comes with conditions which make a person's
boundaries look like Swiss cheese. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For Brown, the difference between
guilt and shame are subtle but important here, because one is like water and the other like kool-aid. Guilt is something we feel for something we’ve
done, Brown observes, like accidentally breaking a window while playing baseball in the street. If you b</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">elieve you are ultimately a good person at heart, you'll</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> learn from such an experience and avoid doing the same
thing in the future. But shame is different. It is a feeling we have for something we are. The broken
window above, as such, is not evidence we had failed to consider the
consequences of our actions, but evidence we are born defective to begin with. In the former, we
are born with souls as pure as water, while the latter colors our souls in the
crimson kool-aid of forgiveness from a God. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To nurture children on systems
steeped in self-shaming “beliefs” that see the world in black and white is to
starve them of the kind of authentic non-judgmental love needed to cultivate
one’s unique authenticity. Inauthentic selves, on the other hand, are
manufactured by religious belief systems that use judgment based “love” to
clone emotionally dependent replicas of paying customers. It’s really a brilliant
business model, when you think about it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this is why people who define themselves
as non-binary are treated like such a threat, because they reflect a third
option of thinking about what it means to be made in the image and likeness of
a God that is just as non-binary. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a result of such nurturing, a child learns to see the near-enemy of love as genuine love, and to see genuine love as a
frightening threat to the only "love" they've may have ever known. As Dr. Elan Golomb explains in her book, <i>Trapped
in the Mirror</i>: <i>Adult Children of Narcissists in their Struggle for Self</i>,
"All children need love to not only survive but thrive. If there is no
real affection, the child will interpret what attention the parent does offer
as love," even when it ain't. "If all the child receives is
criticism, then criticism is interpreted as love and the behavior the parent
criticized will be repeated to get more "love." If the child was only
attended to for being slow, sloppy, lazy, careless, etc, all passive aggressive
traits, then these will be retained into adulthood. This is how maladaptive behaviors
can become ingrained and cause all kinds of difficulty in later life."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Teaching children to conflate
attachment-love for real love, especially when it results in the emotional
problems that stem from religious conditioning, qualifies as a form of child
abuse that is as abhorrent as </span><span style="background: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Munchausen syndrome by proxy. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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points out, </span></p>
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sense: if what’s normal is assumed to be natural, the norm will endure; on the
other hand, when suspicions emerge that the way things are may not be how
they’re meant to be . . . well, the quo may not be status for long. Thus do
cultures generate notions— myths, in effect—of selfish, aggressive striving and
dominance as behavioral baselines, encouraging characteristics that place a
lesser value on connectedness to others</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> and to Nature itself. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 27pt; margin-right: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 4.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today’s
culture, as a result, “hastens human development along unhealthy lines from
conception onward (like the stain of original sin idea), leading to a “normal”
that, from the perspective of the needs and evolutionary history of our species
(a need to feel safe and loved, which we can only feel when we are not
constantly judged), is utterly aberrant. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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our own
needs for those of God and, because "he" chooses to remain largely
inaccessible to
our best efforts to try and know any for certain about "him," his
Church. Martyrdom is a prime
example of how a person can come to believe that sacrificing their
earthly life
will win them a life of eternal approval. And the eternal rejection that
hell represents is seen by Christians as simply the choice made, not by
the God who created them and the hell in which
they will suffer for all eternity, but those being tortured for all
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p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-66456419591192688122024-03-08T14:56:00.000-08:002024-03-08T20:50:56.653-08:00A Really Good Question<p>The only evidence for Christian claims of the divine authority of their beliefs is their willingness to believe that their claims are divinely authored. That's it - literally and figuratively. </p><p>Other than people's willingness to believe it to the point of either feeding themselves to lions or burning others alive as "witches" and "heretics," there simply is no other evidence to support such a claim. Nor do Christians ever feel the need to offer any. Instead, they simply insist that everyone else prove them wrong. When people then offer arguments like the problem of evil, of why and "all powerful" and "all good" God allows evil to occur, Christians reflexively blame "free will" - which shifts the blame from the manufacturer to the machine while ignoring the pre-programmed settings of "the stain of original sin" that lead us to prefer offending God more than obeying God - and decide such a point is completely irrelevant. For them, God even uses evil to advance his plans, which is obviously why he punished Jesus and left the Devil without a scratch - even if no one knows why He does. </p><p>And that is the true magic that makes their "beliefs" so real to them - the adamancy with which they, and others like them, hold their "beliefs" to be infallibly true, regardless of the fact it is a recipe for justifying every immorality imaginable in the name of such a God. <br /></p><p>How do you prove to a person that their choice to simply "believe" that their claims come from a God (or make any sense), however heartfelt such a desire, choice, and a "belief" may be, is in no way proof that the 'divine author' they imagine must therefore exist, or that, even if such a 'divine author' does exist in some way, shape, or form, that "He" ever authored such beliefs, let alone commanded anyone and everyone to "believe" them in order to save themselves from being roasted alive - in a hell such a "God" alone created - for all eternity for failing to do so?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 158.95pt center 3.25in;">And this is the true miracle of religious claims - that the hypocrisy of religious claims are so
simple it defies credulity. <span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">And that's the trick, that only puny secrets need protection, as Marshal McLuhan observed, for big secrets and big discoveries<b> "are protected by public incredulity</b>." </span></span>As a result, it's far easier to believe every other claim made by "believers" than to accept that the entire 2000 year old edifice of Christianity itself is built on a cornerstone of double standards masquerading as "infallible truth."</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 158.95pt center 3.25in;">What makes it nearly impossible to pull back the curtain on such a simple yet bold faced
double standard is the fact that it comes packaged in the Trojan horse of a person’s emotional need to believe it. Like yawning, the conviction a person develops for such a belief comes largely from the dedication (i.e., the need) others have to those same convictions. This is why Christians so often offer martyrs - "no one would simply die for a story that wasn't true, would they?" - as evidence for the truth of Christian claims, even as those very same Christians simply dismiss the martyrs for all other claims, including those like Hyapatia of Alexandria and Giordano Bruno, who died at the hands of Christians as martyrs for science while defending the claim that scientific investigation was a more reliable source of objective truth than faith in religious dogmas which were used to support slavery and burn witches. <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 158.95pt center 3.25in;"> Hence, the true face of Christian claims to divine truth are really a trinity of hypocrisy. The father is the double standard itself, in which Christians boast of how their faith is so strong it needs no evidence to support it, even as they then use "miracles" as evidence to support a "faith" which they insist needs no evidence. The son of such a double standard is to always and everywhere deny that such a double standard is being exclusively relied on because, while Christians require that everyone else has the obligation to offer evidence that disproves their beliefs, Christians likewise require that anyone else who makes the very same claims that Christians make must offer evidence to substantiate their own brand of "faith" claims. (No wonder there are over 42,000 different brands of Christianity!) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 158.95pt center 3.25in;">And lastly, the holy spirit of such a double standard is the fanaticism that such a double standard not only necessitates but is then used as the only evidence there is that such "beliefs" are not only true, but infallibly so. That's why my brother, a Roman Catholic priest, loves to minimize everyone else's beliefs as "just a belief," even as he insists that his own brand of belief is not "just a belief," because it is infallibly true. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 158.95pt center 3.25in;">His evidence, of course, is his conviction, which led him to become a Catholic priest in the first place. And he knows this because, at least for him, there's simply no other way of explaining why he believes it so much (at least, not that he would ever be willing to accept anyway). Tell him that a person who is convinced they are Napoleon Bonaparte suffers from the same problem, however, and he cannot help but feel like his "faith" is being attacked - because, let's face it: it is! In short, what proves to him his Catholicism is infallible truth is his own fanaticism for his Catholicism! Yet far from being evidence of anything as true, fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt, as Carl Jung pointed out, even when that fanaticism is for skepticism about the Christian claims as being divinely authored by a God. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 158.95pt center 3.25in;">The difference is that the skeptic can see how the Christian claims are possibly true, even if the chance of being so are less than one's chance of winning the lottery, while each one of the more than 42,000 different brands of Christianity all equally insist they have won such a lottery, even as they insist that all of the other 42,000 plus brands of Christianity are as deluded and mistaken as anyone who is convinced they are Napoleon Bonaparte. And what proof does each Christian offer to substantiate their claims to have been granted special access to divine truths about the universe, even more so than the other 42,000 claims? Well, the conviction with which they insist their "beliefs" are true, for why else would they be so willing to feed themselves to lions and burns their neighbors as "witches" and heretics, if their beliefs weren't infallibly true? </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 158.95pt center 3.25in;">Which is a really good question. <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 158.95pt center 3.25in;"><br /></p>
p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-4242839538456139302024-03-08T12:11:00.000-08:002024-03-08T12:11:29.297-08:00<p>"In the fundamentalist view, unbelievers have only two relevant
attributes: They are potential converts and sources of temptation. As
objects of evangelism, they are called 'crops to be harvested,' 'sheep
to be found,' and 'fish to be netted.' Because of the danger of worldly
influence (much like a contagious disease), relationships with '<i>them</i>'
must be handled gingerly. Contacts must be superficial, geared toward
evangelism only, and cut short if there is not a positive response.
Since Christians are already full of truth, there is no need for them to
listen, nothing for them to learn, and much for them to lose by
admitting alternative views into their consciousness." Marlene Winell, <i><a href="https://infidels.org/affiliate.php?book=9781879237513" target="new">Leaving the Fold</a></i> (Oakland, CA: New Harbinger, 1993), pp. 76-77.</p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-63333199169060458102024-03-07T14:08:00.000-08:002024-03-07T14:08:17.366-08:00<p> "But if oxen (and horses) and lions ... could draw with hands and create
works of art like those made by men, horses would draw pictures of gods
like horses, and oxen of gods like oxen . . . . Aethiopians have gods
with snub noses and black hair, Thracians have gods with grey eyes and
red hair."</p><p> Xenophanes, quoted in Stewart Guthrie, <i><a href="https://infidels.org/affiliate.php?book=9780195098914" target="new">Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion</a></i> (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 179.</p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-9274225142934995302024-03-07T05:55:00.000-08:002024-03-07T05:55:27.716-08:00Tithing<p> Tithing proves that religion is not the same as God, since God is alleged to be responsible for creating a universe that didn't manage to create money until about five thousand years ago. And if money disappeared from existence tomorrow, it would not effect anything in the universe other than how humans have arranged their societies. There is nothing real about money, in other words, other than our willingness to "believe" it is real, and necessary. </p><p>God, at least as defined by religions that require any kind of tithing, works the same way. <br /></p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-35514360406836697542024-03-06T20:56:00.000-08:002024-03-06T20:56:30.314-08:00Violence & the Sacred<p>A fatal flaw in the Christian mindset is that it is a religion of peace, even though it is founded on the use of both evil and violence, both of which are inflicted mercilessly on the most innocent. But how can evil and violence be used to advance a moral plan? This is the problem of evil - it is something that Christianity claims to oppose, even though it is the very corner stone upon which the entire religion is built. But how can a religion claim to champion peace and justice when it is based on the greatest act of violence and injustice in human history? And because it illustrates that even evil and violence can operate to advance God's divine will - which only demonstrates why such a will is itself either nonsensical at best and pure evil at worst - then does that mean that everything from global floods to the holocaust are all just part of God's "divine plan"?<br /></p><p> Christianity is a religion that, although it claims to worship the "prince of peace," actually worships violence as the preferred means by which God advances his "will," and cleanses and forgives the world for operating as only He and He alone designed it to operate. But there are two kinds of violence: one physical and the other spiritual. For Christians, the former is the means of preventing the other from exercising the joys of curiosity and creativity on one's religion, for fear that doing so may cause our spirituality to change or evolve into something new and improved - perhaps even something that no longer venerates human sacrifice, even through symbolic rituals, nor feels a need to drink blood to appease a God. <br /></p><p> Violence occurs during eras of great change. Because the social and
the sacred are seen as one and the same, changes to the former are felt
by "believers" as threats and acts of violence toward the latter. The
latter, after all, is steeped in sacred traditions that are often violently uprooted by change fueled by technology. As such, physical violence exercised by
"believers" is always
felt to be in defense of, and in reaction against, the violence of
those who, like Jesus, advocate for
spiritual change. And nothing ushers spiritual change, and thus a change in ideas of what is moral and immoral, more than commercial and technological progress. Take the Civil War, for example. <br /></p><p>Christianity had been used in America to defend slavery as just and moral for centuries prior to a collective reversal that precipitated the Civil War. And what precipitated that change was the rise of the industrial revolution that sought to replace man power with machine power, one being treated like a machine and the other treating humans like servants to machines. Had the
confederacy won the American Civil War, their histories
would only ever show that they used physical violence to defend themselves against the spiritual violence being committed by those Northern "yanks" who sought to replace tradition with technological progress. From the perspective of the South, Yankees were simply "the
enemies of God" who sought to change the holy arrangement of society.
Had the South won the Civil War, in other words, it's
history books would look like simply another chapter added to the Old Testament.<br /></p><p>The problem is that, while capitalism requires that the ratio of winners to losers remains always the same, everything else in the environment is subject to change. More than that, the accumulation of capital fuels
technological development, and technological development has a
compounding effect, accelerating changes faster and faster. <br /></p><p>But there's the rub. While economics fuels changes in society, the command morality championed by religion requires believers to defend
the system they depend on, which they see as their sacred social contract with their God, who they see as
unchanging and eternal. For them, failing to defend these ideas as ideal could result in them ending up in a never ending torture chamber called hell. Whether its slavery 400 years ago or in
opposing gay marriage today, the need to defend the social "ideal" sold by one's religion is a prerequisite for avoiding hell and reaching heaven. </p><p>Conversely, when
resources begin to tighten due to environmental degradation, call it
climate change or what you will, the change in the economic system is
always framed within a religious perspective of judgment and punishment
of "unbelievers" vs "believers." Since money itself is merely a tool
that requires collective "belief," which is why the first temples were also the banks and the first financiers were the first priests, framing changes in any economic
system as a conflict between "believers" and "unbelievers" is an easy way of flattering the former for their "faith" and scapegoating the latter for their lack of faith. </p><p>Christianity is a world building exercise, after all, and money is the lifeblood of such an exercise. And to a deeply Conservative mindset, in which holding fast to tradition is seen as a noble virtue, change is often seen as threatening what is being built. Prior to the Civil War, the South was defending an agricultural way of life, for example, in which masters reaped the lions share of the profits wrung from the blood, sweat, and tears of slaves who were working "out their salvation in fear and trembling." The North, in contrast, had embraced the new technology of industrialism. </p><p>But again, we
are talking about two kinds of change: to both the physical world on the
one hand, and a spiritual world on the other. And to change the former starts by first changing the latter, for both operate like reflections in a mirror. </p><p>Like the Civil War, all of the
"punishments" of the Old Testament were acts of violence. That violence
was either the one hand of God through nature, like plaques and
droughts, or the other hand of God through his chosen people, whoever
they are (for every sacred scripture has themself in mind), which
include occasional pogroms or genocides against those defined always as "the enemies of God."</p><p>As
seen with Jesus, violence
is a response to a command morality. All of the violence in the Bible
is
always justified by believers as necessary for balancing the cosmic
scales, and to pay the price-tag of free will that so often leads to the
eternal disappointment of the God who "intelligently designed" us with
the capacity to leave Him eternally disappointed in us. But this is like making a dish washing machine
with the "free will" that prefers breaking all of your dishes more to
washing them, and then blaming the dish washing machine rather than the designer. </p><p>(Can you imagine Maytag telling a customer the the problem with their machine is its free will not to work, so blame the machine, not the manufacturer?) </p><p>Christians believe it is their job to protect the sacred
social order of things, as reflecting God's will, which God is most
certainly not free to change (unless it had to do with slavery and witch burning of course). And because God can never change his own will, enslaved to a divine order as it is, the Christian must equally refuse to change their view of their "beliefs" not only to save the world,
but to save their own souls from eternal torture. <br /></p><p>What those same Christians simply ignore is how often God may
feel one way about the manner in which his followers treat others, with
slavery lasting for centuries, and then suddenly change his divine mind,
thanks to the automation of industry that replaced the need for manual
labor. Competition over resources
are seen as the root cause of violence, and that competition always
accompanies scapegoating, especially of the innocent, for demons and
"sinners" can't be
entitled to that which the righteous have earned through the sweat of
their spiritually superior brow, and therefore deserve.</p><p>And when nature tightens the purse strings on its bounty, "othering" becomes the order of the day, when witchery is blamed for bad effects, and everyone accused of being a witch, heretic, or "unbelever" is crucified as scapegoats. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-72574888962794581702024-03-06T14:57:00.000-08:002024-03-06T14:57:44.994-08:00Religious Truama: How Christianity can be "Utterly Aberrant"<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trauma is defined as </span><span>"an emotional response to an intense event that threatens or causes harm."</span></p><p><span>For countless numbers of children like myself, Religious Trauma (RT) can therefore be defined as "an emotional response to an intense event that threatens or causes harm, with everythi<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">ng from children being thrown out of their garden home by an irate father for eating forbidden fruit, to apocalyptic floods, crucifixions of the innocent, drinking of blood, days of atonement and threats of hell and purgatory for failing to obey God, being the 'intense event that threatens physical harms which causes emotional harm' like nothing else in the universe." </span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The religion being referred to is Christianity, of course. But Christianity need not necessarily always causes RT. When the ultimate focus of the religion is on love, and the other ideas are limited or excluded, no RT may be suffered. But the more threats of hell and a focus on suffering as atonement for one's flaws is increased, the more traumatic the experience of Christianity can be to a child, for the child is defenseless to what they are being taught to believe about both themselves and the world they have been born into. In effect, the child is being taught they are born on a treadmill headed for the mouth of a volcano. And the only way they can avoid being thrown into that volcano is if they obey a Church. </span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">When faced with the dire threat of eternal torture for failing to obey a Church, mixed with beliefs that suffering makes one like Christ and ensures access to heaven, is it any wonder a child will obey a priest who tells them to engage in illegal sexual activities? But I digress. <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> To illustrate just how much Christianity can indeed operate as the cause of so much trauma to innocent children around the world, even as it also operates to provide hope for being saved from the suffering it may cause, consider the following quotes from the book, <i>The Myth of Normal</i> by one of the leading educators on trauma today, Dr. Gabor Mate. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The quote itself is in boldface. And I have broken it up to add my own comments to help to describe how the causes of trauma that Mate is discussing can be found in the traumatizing ideas being used to shape children's minds through Christian education and indoctrination.</span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quote: <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>"No hominin species could have survived long
enough to evolve had its members seen themselves as atomized individuals,
pitted by Nature against their fellow beings." <br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While Christianity publicly claims to be working to make us all one big happy family, in truth, the "family" it desires is one in which everyone must obey the commands of a father who threatens to throw any of his children who do not obey his demands into the furnace in the basement. As such, it preaches community while it sows seeds of division by requiring each child, or each tribe, to obey its rules, and reject every other. Christianity can therefore be understood as essentially forcing people to work on saving others as the only way to save themselves. Hence, it is simply a religion that preaches like a lamb but acts like a self interested wolf that will do whatever it takes to avoid hell and win heaven. Whenever Mate therefore says "self interest," consider how Christianity is about one's ultimate self interest in salvation. No one - not even Jesus - is willing to suffer for all eternity. Doing so allows us to see a truer face of the Christian religion, one in which the primary goal for the "believer" is not about obtaining peace on earth, but avoiding hell and getting the apple of salvation, even if that requires making hell on earth. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b> "Contrary to our present ways of
operating, a traditional view of self-interest would be enhancing one’s
connection and membership in th</b>e (diverse) <b>community, to everyone’s benefit.</b> (Even those who believe different from ourselves.) <b>Authentic
self-interest need not be conflated with a suspicious and competitive stance
toward others."</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Christianity has always been competitive with other religions, but also of different forms of Christianity. There is a long history of conflict between different brands of Christianity, starting with the ones being practiced during the days of St. Augustine up through the Puritans in the colonies and even the Catholics vs the Protestants. It was those differences that Augustine sought to stamp out using torture.<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>"Hence my working assumption that our
nature, all else being equal, expects or even prefers as its baseline state a
condition of caring, relative harmony, and equilibrium, of the kind that
obtains when interconnectedness rules the day. It is not that our nature is to
be those ways, but that it wants them to be present. When they are, we thrive;
when denied, we suffer." <br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is not our nature to be born sinners, in other words, hell bent on selfishness and self interest, especially in saving our own hide from Hades.<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>"What to make, then, of the modern
received wisdom that we are fundamentally aggressive, selfish? Where does such
an idea come from?"</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like the Christian concept of "God," so the entire premise of "original sin" has never been proven, nor an eternal soul to which such a sin is said to be a stain. In is from this "belief" in the stain of original sin that Christians claim to have been given a "divine revelation" that we are born fundamentally selfish and aggressive, and the only thing that can help us with that is to incentivize us into striving for Heaven by teaching us to be scared as hell of Hell. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>"Under a capitalist system notions
and expressions of human nature will both mirror the individualized,
competitive ideal <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and justify it as
being the inevitable status quo."</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Christianity does the same thing, mirroring the idea that we are sinners in need of saving, and calling anyone who challenges such a status quo a heretic. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>It makes sense: if what’s normal is assumed to
be natural, the norm will endure; on the other hand, when suspicions emerge
that the way things are may not be how they’re meant to be . . . well, the quo
may not be status for long. Thus do </b>(Christian)<b> cultures generate notions— myths,
in effect—of selfish, aggressive striving and dominance as behavioral baselines,
encouraging characteristics that place a lesser value on connectedness to
others </b>(i.e., diversity) <b> and to Nature itself </b>(that is, the natural world, rather than worshiping a spiritual ideal, as if your eternal soul depended on it)<b>. </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b> In our present capitalist society, Darcia
Narvaez suggested to me, we have become “species-atypical,” a sobering idea
when you think about it: no other species has ever had the ability to be untrue
to itself, to forsake its own needs, never mind to convince itself that such is
the way things ought to be. (Christianity likewise teaches us to forsake our own needs for those of God and, since he chooses to remain largely inaccessible to our best efforts to know "him," his Church. Martyrdom is a prime example of how a person can come to believe that sacrificing their earthly life will win them eternal life.) <br /></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>As the following chapters will
explore, today’s culture </b>(Christianity on the one hand, and unfettered consumption on the other)<b> hastens human development along unhealthy lines from
conception onward (like the stain of original sin idea), leading to a “normal” that, from the perspective of the
needs and evolutionary history of our species (a need to feel safe and loved, which we can only feel when we are not constantly judged), is utterly aberrant. </b></span></p>
p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-70261042851435266332024-03-04T08:30:00.000-08:002024-03-04T08:30:58.773-08:00thoughts with Young Peublo<p> understanding is the soil of all love, misunderstanding is the cause of all fear. What Christianity wants people to believe to be "divine understanding" to foster a love of God (ie of the religion that claims to connect that person to God), creates division between people with different beliefs about the nature of being human and the purpose and meaning of life itself. <br /></p><p> To love life we must accept change, for change is the most natural law of the universe, while fear of change is to blaspheme the laws of the universe. God may be unchanging, but because such a "being" is infinite, and we by comparison are finite. it is impossible for the finite to know the infinite without the one being forced to always change its view and understanding of the other. Numbers are infinite, for example, but to claim it is blasphemy to seek to know more about numbers than counting to ten is what Catholicism tries to teach its followers, and to fear anyone who dares to count any higher than that. <br /></p><p> Everything about us changes, in both mind and body. But religion preaches eternity without change, and commands us to think in terms of never changing our mind about our beliefs in our religion and our ideas of God.But the only way the finite can experience the infinite is through constant change, the same way a person can only count to infinity by always changing the number they are counting. </p><p>the real you is not your initial reaction. You initial reaction is dictated by the past, which is written in invisible ink in your emotional brain. your intentional reaction is the real you, the reflective you, the rational brain you, the adult you, the part of you that is climbing out of the soil of the past experiences, the quicksand of your emotional trauma. <br /></p><p>when we are craving for things to be a certain way, this is attachment... attachments are born out of craving, and keeps the mind full of suffering, like a child that longs for the comforts of home. <br /></p><p>healing and liberation go hand and hand. no modality, no religion, has a monopoly on how to heal. <br /></p><p> We are designed to find our own way to heal. No two cups break in the same way. <br /></p><p>the mind sees the present through the stained glasses windows of past experiences</p><p>A guide is not a savior. a savior requires us to believe we are powerless to save ourselves, they save us in exchange for loyalty, which is designed to create dependents and sycophants. A belief that we are born sinners that need forgiveness to be saved teaches us to believe we are incapable of healing, or saving, ourselves. It teaches us we must exchange our freedom to live as we wish for the chance to avoid being cast in the Auschwitz ovens in the afterlife called hell. <br /></p><p>A shaman learns by venturing into the deserts of experience, while the scholar learns in the temple. A shaman is a guide, one who shows you the perils and pitfalls to various actions and inaction, while a scholar is a priest and a moral police officer, who uses the fear of punishment and the hope of reward to condition behavior. One guides us to "know theyself" with an understanding that "the kingdom of God is within," while the other commands us to know only (their brand) of God, by following <br /></p><p>Falling in love with a belief we were taught as a child is a variation of falling in love with permanent youth. Like Peter Pan and Holden Caulfield, it is a refusal to "put away childish things." This is reflected in the idea that God does not change, and neither should our beliefs about God. And we will be rewarded with never changing as we live forever, never growing old, if we never change our minds. But again, we are finite, and God is infinite. Refusing to change our mind is like refusing to count past the number 1, and then claiming the number 1 equals infinite, and anyone who counts to two or beyond is going to hell. <br /></p><p>we deny death because it is the reminder that things change. At funerals, we tell ourselves they are not dead, they are still alive, but now in a place where death cannot touch them any longer. Without death, there can be no growth, or change, or evolution. Dogmas are designed to prevent growth in the same way. Dogmas are a tomb for understanding, comfort zones that becomes our prisons. <br /></p><p>why would an infinite God cast us into a world of change, designed with a flaw and "sin" that wants to disobey dogmas, and trapped in a body that biologically needs to grow or decay, and then told we must rely on a religion that teaches us to believe in a God and afterlife that never changes, when nothing learned in the former can be reconciled with, let alone applied to living in, such an environment? </p><p>to believe a person is their initial reaction is a false reality, it is to believe in a false self. through intention we show our true selves, we are authentic.</p><p>cravings are a rejection of reality, for reality is change, a craving for certainty is a craving for things not changing, a false reality, like Peter Pan. </p><p>there is no security in attachment. a desire for permanence is a rebellion and a blaspheming of impermanence. a craving for perfection is to crucify ourselves to the cross of an ideal "us." which we project into the sky in the form of a God, one which promises to "save us" if we then scapegoat "them" and project our own imperfections on to others, who are damned. <br /></p><p>if the pain is deep, we have to let it go several times</p><p>it is a hurt from the past that causes us to fear the future</p><p><br /></p><p> <br /></p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-44362619360820082132024-03-02T22:24:00.000-08:002024-03-10T07:40:19.340-07:00OAG Report on Child Sexual Abuse in Baltimore by The Catholic Church<p>These are extracts from the Office of the Attorney General in Baltimore, detailing the extent of the sexual abuse engaged in on multiple levels by the Catholic Church in Baltimore. Nor is that abuse, as the report shows, the result solely of priests within the Roman Catholic Church. Rather, the RCC was an active facilitator of that abuse not only by refusing to engage in serious investigations but in actively protecting abusers while continually transplanting them from one parish of victims to other parishes of victims to prey upon, with full knowledge that the abuse was happening again and again. The question such a report raises is this: are all those who continue to empower such an institution in anyway complicit in the abuse? </p><p>Believers tell themselves that their church and their brand of religion is always as unblemished and innocent as Jesus himself, and therefore it is never the RCC itself but just some of the priests, who should never be confused with the power and authority of the RCC. Ask them why their God murdered an innocent Jesus rather than the guilty devil, and still, they insist it is because their religion and their definition of the word "God" are perfect, even though a justice system that does the same thing is judged to be a failure. And Catholics the world over simply wash their hands by washing their minds of any blame for enabling that Church to turn the pope who didn't do a thing to stop or investigate the abuse, and thereby aided and abetted such abuse, into a saint. That should tell you all you need to know about the true nature of the RCC. <br /></p><p>Extracts from that report are as follows:<br /></p><p>From the 1940s through 2002, over a hundred priests and other Archdiocese personnel engaged in horrific and repeated abuse of the most vulnerable children in their communities while Archdiocese leadership looked the other way.<br /></p><p>The duration and scope of the abuse perpetrated by Catholic clergy was only possible because of the complicity of those charged with leading the Church and protecting its faithful. Leaders of the Archdiocese repeatedly dismissed reports of abuse and exhibited little to no concern for victims. They failed to adequately investigate complaints and made no effort to identify other victims or corroborate alleged abuse. They transferred known abusers to other positions of equal authority and access to children. They focused not on protecting victims or stopping the abuse, but rather on ensuring at all costs that the abuse be kept hidden. The costs and consequences of avoiding scandal were borne by the victimized children. <br /></p><p>Time and again, members of the Church’s hierarchy resolutely refused to acknowledge allegations<br />of child sexual abuse for as long as possible. When denial became impossible, Church leadership<br />would remove abusers from the parish or school, sometimes with promises that they would have<br />no further contact with children. Church documents reveal with disturbing clarity that the<br />Archdiocese was more concerned with avoiding scandal and negative publicity than it was with<br />protecting children.</p><p>The incontrovertible history uncovered by this investigation is one of pervasive and persistent abuse by priests and other Archdiocese personnel. It is also a history of repeated dismissal or cover up of that abuse by the Catholic Church hierarchy. While every victim’s story is unique, together they reveal themes and behaviors typical of adults who sexually abuse children, and of those who enable abuse by concealing it. What was consistent throughout was the absolute authority and power these abusive priests and church leadership held over victims, their families, and their communities.</p><p>Abusers often singled out children who were especially isolated or vulnerable because of shyness, lack of confidence, or problems at home, and they presented themselves as protectors and friends of the children and their families. Abusers preyed upon the children most devoted to the church: the altar servers and choir members, those who participated in church youth organizations and the Scout troops, and especially those who worked in the rectories answering telephones in the evening and on the weekends. They groomed the victims with presents and special attention. They told their victims the abuse was “God’s will” and that no one would doubt the word of a priest. Some threatened that the victim or victim’s family would go to hell if they told anyone. </p><p>Time and again, bishops and other leaders in the church displayed empathy for the abusers that far outweighed any compassion shown to the children who were abused. These leaders repeatedly accepted the word of abusers over that of victims and their families. They conflated pedophilia with alcoholism and other substance use disorders, and they exhibited a misplaced reliance on “treatment.” When “investigations” were conducted, they were done by clergy who were neither trained as investigators nor independent of the church. These “investigators” typically questioned only the victim and abuser and made little or no attempt to seek corroboration or evidence of additional victims. They afforded the abuser’s denial equal or greater weight than the victim’s allegations. In some cases where even the most inadequate of investigations revealed undeniable abuse, the Archdiocese removed the abuser from the parish, but gave either no reason or a false reason for the removal. In many cases, the abuser was transferred—often multiple times—to another parish without warning to parishioners of the prior abuse.</p><p>The staggering pervasiveness of the abuse itself underscores the culpability of the Church hierarchy. The sheer number of abusers and victims, the depravity of the abusers’ conduct, and the frequency with which known abusers were given the opportunity to continue preying upon children are astonishing. Over 600 children are known to have been abused by the 156 people included in this Report, but the number is likely far higher. According to the Criminal Victimization Bulletin issued annually by the U.S. Department of Justice, only 33.9% of all rapes and sexual assaults were reported in 2019. That number fell to 22.9% in 2020.29 The numbers are even grimmer when limited to children. One study found that only 11.9% of women who were raped before the age of 18 reported it to the police or any other authority and were less likely to report if the rapist was known to them.</p><p>The ways in which abusers preyed upon their victims varied widely, but all took advantage of the position of authority and respect afforded priests and other clergy in Catholic communities. Parents often gave priests unfettered access to their children because they trusted clergy as spiritual leaders and men of virtue. A victim of Henry O’Toole described what an honor it was to be selected to work in the rectory on Sundays and how proud her family was. When she was alone with him in the rectory, he opened her shirt and fondled her. </p><p>In the aftermath of her divorce, a victim’s mother turned to Jerome Toohey to provide support and counsel to her son. Toohey proceeded to sexually abuse the boy for three years. John Wielebski was another priest who sexually abused children who came to him for counseling. Chillingly, one of his victims was sent to Wielebski because of earlier sexual abuse. Robert Hopkins preyed upon an altar boy who volunteered to open the rectory in the mornings and assist with the mass. Hopkins was so trusted by the family that the victim’s parents let their son sleep overnight at the rectory. Hopkins raped him for five years.</p><p><br />One of the most distressing aspects of the abuse is the frequency with which abusers continued their behavior even after victims came forward or concerns were raised. Lawrence Brett admitted in 1964 to the Bridgeport Diocese that he sexually abused and assaulted a boy when he was in Connecticut. He was sent to “treatment” in New Mexico where he continued to abuse children and then came to the Archdiocese of Baltimore. He was placed at Calvert Hall, a boys’ school. He abused over 20 boys in Maryland after 1964. </p><p>Joseph Maskell was moved from two parishes in the 1960s because of reports of troubling behavior with children, including a fascination with the sexual fantasies and behavior of boy scouts and “having young girls in the rectory under suspicious circumstances.” Not only were the reports by multiple parents not investigated, reported to authorities, or publicized, he was assigned to be Chaplain at Archbishop Keough High School, an all-girls’ school. Maskell sexually abused at least 39 victims. Walter Emala is another priest who continued to abuse children after victims came forward. He was banished from what became the Diocese of Memphis in 1968 after multiple reports of child abuse were made. He came to the Archdiocese of Baltimore and abused at least six boys in Maryland, as well as others in Pennsylvania.<br /></p><p>Even in some of the rare instances when sexual abuse was prosecuted, the judicial system and the press colluded with the Church to avoid transparency and accountability. In 1958, Father Gerald Tragesser was prosecuted for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl. In letters to fellow priests, Archbishop Keough pointedly referred to one of the victim’s parents as a “non-Catholic” and criticized them for “violently pressing charges and demanding a public trial.” Archbishop Keough reported that, with the help of “some excellent Catholic laymen,” the case was resolved privately in the chambers of the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. When the victim’s mother tried to expose the abuse through the press, Archbishop Keough wrote that “prolonged and extremely careful negotiations” and the “happy influence of a highly placed newspaper man” prevented the story from being printed.</p><p><br />Archbishop Keough wrote to the judge and promised that Tragesser would attend a treatment center and would not return to Maryland. If he were allowed to return to the priesthood, the archbishop said, it would be “in some ecclesiastical jurisdiction in or near New Mexico.” The judge agreed that “the interests of society and of justice” would be best served by this disposition and described his relationship with Catholic clergy as “extremely cordial.” Tragesser was reassigned to the Diocese of Salt Lake City less than a year later. The letter reassigning Tragesser described him as having “girl trouble,” and said the reassignment was to give him “a fresh start.” Tragesser remained a priest for another 17 years.<br /></p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-52752891657197583492024-03-02T10:57:00.000-08:002024-03-02T10:57:44.693-08:00<p> "So how do theists respond to arguments like this? [The Argument from
Evil] They say there is a reason for evil, but it is a mystery. Well,
let me tell you this: I'm actually one hundred feet tall even though I
only appear to be six feet tall. You ask me for proof of this. I have a
simple answer: it's a mystery. Just accept my word for it on faith. And
that's just the logic theists use in their discussions of evil."</p><p> Quentin
Smith, "<a href="http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/quentin_smith/atheism.html" target="new">Two Ways to Defend Atheism</a>"</p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-42281016206065996342024-03-01T23:30:00.000-08:002024-03-06T20:24:41.126-08:00Understanding Religious Trauma Part V How Shame Leads to Narcissism<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shame is buried in our bodies creating sickness and pain but we are too ashamed to process it and that's why we continue being sick and in pain</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scott Kiloby</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"> <b>Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid</b>. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs our ability to see reality.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">Gabor Mate </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Entelechy is a Greek word coined by Aristotle that reflects the idea that within any and every organism is a uniquely inherent regulating force directing its development, for no two organisms ever develop the same. Indeed, not even two hammers that come off of an assembly line are exactly the same. The word captures the dual concepts of potentiality and actuality, which reflect the difference between the infinite possibilities in which an organism can develop, and the one way a given organism does develop. And each of us embodies both. While the former reflects the "image and likeness" of an infinite immaterial 'God' filled with infinite possibilities, the latter nails those possibilities to the cross of one idea or image like a criminal or a heretic</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Narcissism is to fall in love with the image of the latter, while Narcissus may have discovered he was the son of the former. To fall in love with an image is to fall in love with an ego, while an ego is a tomb of our infinite potential. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
parent that relies on approval and disapproval to condition their child into believing and behaving like the parent is, in essence, acting like Narcissus. Like Thomas Merton pointed out, by trying to turn their
child into a clone of themselves by basing their approval on whether the child mirrors their beliefs and behavior, the parent demonstrates they </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"only love the reflection" of themself they find when looking at their child.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Such a parent is projecting their own ego onto their child's soul, as if they are trying to imprint it on to their child's entelelchy. To the parent, the child's potential is a threat, while the child's obedience to imitating their parent is a source of pleasure to the parent's ego. In turn, the child will grow to demand the same obedience from their own children, and equate it with love. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Anger and hurt is felt by the parent when their child does not reflect back to them
what they (the parent) wants to see in their child, but the parent is pleased the more the child strives to imitate their parent. And the parent who does this has as their model for doing so the Christian God, who not only calls us to be as obedient as Jesus - which is strange, because the Lamb of Jesus is also the God who demands human sacrifice, the same way gentle Norman Bates is also his knife wielding mother - but threatens with eternal torments anyone who dares to use their free will to play with their potentiality. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like our reflection in a mirror acting differently than
we do in a horror movie, a child acting differently from their parents in their beliefs feel to the narcissistic parent like a rejection of that parent. Such a rejection causes such a parent an immense amount of suffering. To such a parent, the same rejection they feel from their child when the child chooses to follow a different path, either one of authenticity or one in which the child opts to mirror someone else instead (like a celebrity), triggers in the parent the same rejection they (the parent) felt as a child whenever they failed to mirror their own parents beliefs and behaviors. And the anger such a parent unleashes on their child for such rejection, which is often couched in ideas of a child's ingratitude for all the parent has sacrificed and provided, is a reflection of the pain of rejection they felt as a child for failing to mirror their own narcissistic parents. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this way, the demands the parent had to conform to as a child to feel "love" from their own parents, which is really approval masquerading as love, becomes the conformity the parent demands in order to feel the same kind of "love" from their own children. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Splitting Us from Ourselves<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All
trauma splits us from our authentic selves,
forcing us to choose between what feels natural to us and what we are nurtured to believe is our "true self," even if what we believe is our "true self" is actually someone wanting us to believe we are born ugly ducklings. Religious trauma is based on teaching children to believe such ideas about themselves, that their God choose to make
us all suffering from a spiritual sickness that required a lifelong dependency on an institutional church rather than allowing us to be born without such spiritual flaws. It comes in the form of a narrative that, like separating
the body and blood of Jesus at every mass, likewise splits our souls
from our
physical bodies, with the one mired in sin and the other being said to be made in the image and likeness of God. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Consider this difference - between blood and body. Some see the soul as living in the blood, which is as shapeless and formless as water, but without which the body dies and becomes as stiff and rigid as an iron nail or a wooden cross. Jesus's wandering nomadic life reflected the former, while his death reflected the later. This is the difference between spirituality and an openness to learning and understanding on the one hand, and religion and a dogmatic devotion to rules on the other. Or in the words of Jesus, the blood is as free flowing and formless as the "spirit of the law," while the body is made of bones that are as rigid and rickety as the "letter of the law." <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In religion, we are taught to believe that God wishes us to conform our behaviors to the letter of the law, which is like crucifying the desires of the flesh to a cross of faith that, in exchange for our obedience, we will be freed from the confines of the flesh after we die. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Consider also the story of the parting of the "red sea" as merely a metaphor, reflecting the formlessness and shapelessness of both blood and water - the two of which were the last things that were emptied from Jesus's body on the cross, after he was stabbed with a soldier's spear. And what is a soldier but one who regiments his mind to be as mechanical in its thinking as his body. The "red sea" parts for slaves to escape a pursuing army that wishes to re-enslave them.
And what is an army but a means of defending ourselves against, or attacking, those witches and heretics we doubt and fear. It was soldiers who crucified Jesus because he was someone the Sanhedrin - the spiritual leaders of his day who labeled him a heretic - feared. How telling is it then, from this perspective, that between the body and blood that Catholic Churches serve up at every mass around the world, it prefers to feed it's followers the one made of bread while the priest drinks the one made of wine, as if to reflect the intoxication of power. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because it is
based on alleviating the pain of rejection, false love or "attachment"
love cultivates narcissistic personalities. Narcissists insist that you
see things the way they do. Why? Because every difference in your
perception is experienced as an attack upon theirs, especially their perception of themselves. And it is because, from
the parents perspective, the perception that parent relies on is
the one they developed to insulate themselves from being rejected by
their own parent(s) as a child. When enough such people grow up, their shared perception of themselves as "obedient" in their conformity become a Church, and the dogmatism with which they devote themselves to their shared perceptions of themselves becomes the bones of their religion. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Repeating the cycle, the parent
methodically wipes out their children's attempt to develop their own
perceptions, the same way the parent was never allowed to develop their
own perceptions as a child. As a result, it becomes automatic for the child to
conform to the parent's viewpoint in order to avoid the sting of
disapproval. And once that child becomes a parent in turn, they will do
the same thing to their own child. And the cycle continues as a sacred tradition until someone is willing to be seen as a heretic, tries something new, and breaks the cycle.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> As Dr. Elan Golomb explains in her book, </span><span><i>Trapped in the Mirror</i>: <i>Adult Children of Narcissists in their Struggle for Self</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"All children need love to not only survive but thrive. If there is
no real affection, the child will interpret what attention the parent
does offer as love," even when it ain't. "If all the child receives is
criticism, then criticism is interpreted as love and the behavior the
parent criticized will be repeated to get more "love." If the child was
only attended to for being slow, sloppy, lazy, careless, etc, all
passive aggressive traits, then these will be retained into adulthood.
This is how maladaptive behaviors can become ingrained and cause all
kinds of difficulty in later life." <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
causes the child to learn what the parent needs from them. Like Norman
Bates, this places the parental figure in their psyche as a governing
body, setting standards for behavior and granting "love" as a reward for
doing what meets with its approval, and withdrawing that approval for going their own way. The need for that "love" makes the
child malleable clay in the parent's hands. And while God is the
"Father" who sets the ultimate standards for behavior and grants "love"
(i.e., approval) through salvation on "judgement" day, the Bible says that Adam was made of
clay. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
avoid triggering that anger, the child abandons any search for authenticity so they can focus
on finding a persona that the parent will approve
of. Since the child believes they are the cause of their parent’s anger,
they will seek to alleviate their parent’s suffering by taking that
suffering on themselves. This is even reflected in the image of the crucifix, and the idea
that Jesus, who is tortured and crucified, is suffering not for the sins of humanity, but because of the judgements of his own 'Fathers of the Church.' In the same way, the child's
willingness to bear the cross of "dying to self" (which is to crucify their own entelechy to the egoic demands of their parent) in order to be whatever
their parent wants them to be, which they only do out of a desire to
gain their parent’s approval, becomes the price they must pay to feel they are
worthy of "love." But this ends up turning a person's body into a tomb for their soul, like water in a cave of ice. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the one hand, it is precisely his suffering that serves
as the basis for why Christians feel they, and everyone else as far as
they are concerned, have an obligation to love Jesus. It never occurs to them, however, that such a sacrifice presupposes a need for forgiveness for every child ever born thereafter. And for many Christians, being called to be like Jesus leads them to see their own suffering as the thing that indeed makes them feel like they are on the right path to being like Jesus. This
is why some children do not resist the sexual advances of a parent or priest,
for example, or do not complain about physical abuse, because the Christian narrative suggests they not only deserve such abuse as a form of penance for their sinful nature, which is why Jesus had to suffer and die, but also that they should offer up their suffering for others, also like Jesus did. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On
the one hand, the Christian who
has been raised and conditioned their whole life on such a system of
beliefs becomes convinced that their true entelechy and “authenticity” can only come
from accepting they are born sinners in need of a savior, because only
by doing so can they expect to be rewarded with being transformed from an ugly duckling of a sinner into a swan that lives forever like an angel in heaven. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The crucial difference between
trauma and religious ideas of sin, however, is that the former can be healed,
in this life, while the latter can never be fully healed, let alone finally forgiven, until the next life.
Part of why it can’t be healed or fully ever forgiven is because our bodies are fallen from grace in
some way. Note that the very idea that we are born sinners is the very first
blow of trauma, for it convinces us not that we've done something bad, but that
we <i><b>are </b></i>bad, inherently. As such, we believe we are born with an entelechy that is irreparably deformed, which requires us to depend upon a priestly class who's job it is to tell us whether God approves of us or not. From this perspective, our "sin" is actually the result of being spirits and souls that are as formless as blood and water falling in love with a reflection of ourselves in our religions that is as rigid as an ego or solid ice. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span class="NA6bn ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">What makes all of this so applicable to understanding ourselves and the rigor mortis that sets into our souls from religious trauma, which makes our perceptions of ourselves all the more inflexible and stiff, is the fact that up to <b>60%</b>
of the human adult body is water. In fact, the </span></span><span class="NA6bn ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">skin contains 64% water, the</span></span><span class="NA6bn ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"> brain and heart are composed of 73% water, </span></span><span class="NA6bn ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">muscles and kidneys are
79% water, and </span></span><span class="NA6bn ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">the lungs are
about 83% water. Hell, even the bones are watery: 31%.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span>Being the son of the river god Cephissus</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Narcissus, from this perspective, can be seen as falling in love, not with the reflection of his human face <i>in</i> the water, which is a "false face," but with the realization that his true self was as formless and shapeless as water, rather than being as rigid as a tree or a cross. His pride was crucified to the fleeting moment of the former, but his beauty was found in embracing the face he was an inseparable part of the eternal ebb and flow of the latter. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-16961913582923778572024-03-01T21:38:00.000-08:002024-03-01T21:38:40.615-08:00<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Although the Roman Catholic </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Church was designed by God to function as the
umbilical cord for administering supernatural sacraments to cure our
sinful souls of their predilection for sin, at least according to the Roman Catholic Church anyway, those same sacraments have
little to no effect in making those who have been charged with
administering such sacraments any better than anyone else on the planet,
but do an incredible job of convincing billions of people around the
world that they are, in fact, better than others, because they have been given a "gift
of faith" directly from God.</span></p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-69663603124491549872024-02-28T13:59:00.000-08:002024-02-28T13:59:46.784-08:00<p> "All the reasons we've considered thus far for the existence of God
clearly do not establish that God exists. It is surprising, then, and
somewhat disturbing, that these reasons are so often presented as if
they were good reasons... The reasons we've considered begin by
confronting the mystery in front of our noses--the mystery of the
existence and order of the universe around us--and then quickly move in a
direction that take us away both from our experience and the mystery
itself... The hypotheses we've considered about God do not solve the
puzzles but complicate them."</p><p> Daniel Kolak and Raymond Martin, <i><a href="https://infidels.org/affiliate.php?book=9780534533700">Wisdom Without Answers</a></i>, (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1998), p. 41</p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-85457251521394771992024-02-28T09:47:00.000-08:002024-02-29T08:59:03.924-08:00How Christian Faith is an Act of Ingratitude <p> <span style="background-color: ghostwhite; text-align: justify;">"By examining our lives, we may be able to wrest ourselves from inherited answers and hand-me-down values long enough to make contact--not with pipe dreams or idealizations--but with what is true and authentic about ourselves and the world. While we may not, ultimately, save ourselves, we can stand up to the disintegrating universe, our destroyer, and in the midst of our annihilation take stock of what is really going on before the world hurtles us and then itself into oblivion." </span></p><p><span style="background-color: ghostwhite; text-align: justify;">Daniel Kolak and Raymond Martin, </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://infidels.org/affiliate.php?book=9780534533700" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Wisdom Without Answers</a></i><span style="background-color: ghostwhite; text-align: justify;">, (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1998), p. 98</span></p><p><span style="background-color: ghostwhite; text-align: justify;">Those who hope for eternal life after this one show an incredible amount of ingratitude for the life they have. The degree to which they expect eternal reward for the life they are living is equal to how much they feel they deserve for having been made to carry the cross of life itself as they have, straitjacketed by dogmas out of hope for eternal freedom beyond the grave. And the surest proof they have in such hope is merely the fact that they require it to be so, for why else would they feel such a need for it to be so if it wasn't for the fact that God had designed them to know He was as real as the paradise they desire and the hell they wish to avoid, by designing them with such a longing. <br /></span></p><p>I once asked my brother if it was enough just to be alive, to have his wife and daughter with him to feel the sun on his face, the wind in his hair, the kisses of his grandson, and not need eternal heaven or the God as defined by his Catholicism to be overlooking him and grading him to see what rewards he is accruing and entitled to after he dies. </p><p>He said "absolutely not. That would be the worst thing ever!" </p><p>To this, I told him, "then you are not free to choose to believe in your religion, because to choose otherwise is like choosing to throw yourself into a volcano, because the suffering you feel at the loss of your religious ideas that promise you paradise in exchange for enduring this life is like being cast into a kind of hell itself." </p><p>In this sense, the "gift of life" is only tolerable, and bearable, if the person has "faith" that they will be rewarded for being born human by being turned into a god that lives forever. And wasn't it the desire of Adam & Eve to become like God that robbed them of their ability to remain in Eden? </p><p> Like Buddhism points out, the cause of our suffering is craving, which robs us of being able to have any gratitude for what is. <br /></p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-45329322229510448862024-02-27T16:48:00.000-08:002024-03-02T20:40:59.171-08:00Understanding Religious Trauma Part IV - The Divided Self & Mnchausen by Proxy<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;">“The essence of trauma is disconnection from ourselves. Trauma is the very separation from the body and emotions. I<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">t is</span> that scarring that makes you less flexible, more rigid, less feeling and more defended.”<i><br /></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gabor Mate</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Choose relationships with people who do not punish you for being yourself. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scott Kiloby<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Creating souls stained with sin in order to require those souls to depend on spiritual sacraments that act like medicine for the soul - medicine that requires a miracle to turn wine into divine blood and bread into divine flesh, but stops short of fully curing an innocent child of the sin-stained soul they are born afflicted with - is the spiritual equivalent of mnchausen by proxy. Worse, it puts those in charge of administering the cure for such spiritual sickness an incredible amount of power, especially over the children who are taught to believe in both their own spiritual deformities and therefore their need for a life long dependence upon the priesthood that administers the only means of saving oneself from eternal torments that such flaws require to be purged from a soul. And all those who promote such "beliefs"- in both original sin stains and a necessary dependence upon a priesthood that acts as the only means of administering the sacraments needed to save oneself from the hell that is the just reward for such sins - therefore become complicit in empowering those who use such power to prey upon children. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;">Munchausen syndrome by proxy is </span><span style="background-color: #d3e3fd; color: #040c28;">a mental illness and a form of child abuse</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;">. The caretaker of a child, most often a mother, either makes up fake symptoms or causes real symptoms to make it look like the child is sick. On the one hand, the Catholic Church has a need to make up fake symptoms of "sinfulness" in order to draw attention to itself as the only one with the cure to fix those spiritual ailments. On the other hand, if every child is indeed born suffering from the defect of original sin, then the God who gives the "gift of life" to such defective souls does so in order to draw attention to Himself, via his Catholic Church. While any Catholic would be horrified to discover a parent does such a thing, and would be even more horrified to discover that others worship such a parent, all Catholics worship a God who does this same thing to every child ever born. <br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Parents around the world, for 2000 years, have taught their children of the need to be followers of Christianity. Stripped of the mystery and miracles which are so central to its claims to divinely revealed infallible truth, Christianity is predicated on a need to train children into accepting they are born sinners. The effect of accepting this "belief" as infallibly true is that it convinces a child that there is something inherently wrong with them, and there's nothing they can do to fix it. Instead, all they can do is try to save themselves from the fires of hell for the flaws they were born with (which is like tryig to save yourself for being born with the wrong skin color or eye color), by spending their entire life dependent on, and selling to others, their brand of Christianity. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Children hope to win the approval of the Christian God in one of two ways. The first is to obey the Roman Catholic Church, regardless of how fallibly human those within that Church demonstrate themselves to be. And the second is to never doubt what that Church says about "faith and morals," regardless of the dire consequences that can result from the fallibility of popes and priests alike, for the Church as an institution is infallible. And because it is infallible, when the Church tells you you are born with the soul of an ugly ducking, spiritually speaking, you damn well better believe it - or there will be hell to pay. And if a priest abuses you and a pope fails to investigate or prevent that priest from doing it again, that should never be seen as a reflection of the Church itself. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Note that this command morality, which requires obedience not to question the religion that tells you you are a born sinner, regardless of the sins of those who may work for the church, is by far the most unnatural thing imaginable to the overflowing curiosity of a child. Indeed, there is no greater offense to natural law than to command a child not to question a Church that insists the child is born a sinner that needs the Church to survive in this life and the afterlife. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Worse, it does this by teaching the child to feel ashamed of asking questions, like why does a "perfect God" feel any need or desire to make such imperfect children in the first place, when He could just as easily make perfect ones instead, and then threatens to burn them alive for all eternity if they dare to use their woefully imperfect "free will," addled by the stain of original sin as it is, to mistakenly pick the wrong brand of God or religion to put their faith in? Who does that? <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Such lessons become all the more confusing when the child feels pained either by the lessons they are being taught, that they are a sinner who contributed to the suffering of their savior and failure to accept that ensures they are destined for hell, or by actual physical or sexual abuse by someone clothed in the power and authority of God's one true Church. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Using Shame to Divide & Conquer </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
there is one ingredient that has the ability to use such emotional abuse to miraculously transform
pure innocence into narcissism it is shame. By dividing the mind and
pitting it against itself, the true-self and the false-self battle each
other for supremacy, like a dance in which both partners struggle to
lead and neither wants to follow. Without true love, love's counterfeit
becomes the only alternative for a child, the same way a starving person
will eat candy if they cannot find actual food. And the emotional
weapon that the false self uses to yoke us to conformity and overcome
the desires of the true-self to actualize its unique authenticity, is
shame. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Bible says “a divided house cannot stand.” And nothing divides the house of our
own mind more than starving a child of unconditional love and providing love
based on judgement and approval instead. Such a divide and conquer strategy
that convinces a child to prioritize attachment over authenticity was explained
by Scottish psychologist R. D. Laing, in his book <i>The Divided Self</i>.
In it, Laing explains his theory about the origins of such psychotic symptoms,
and how they can result from a person’s mind undergoing a form of mitosis by
splitting in two. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The basic split that forms in the person’s personality,
according to Laing, occurs “along the line of cleavage between his outward
compliance and his inner withholding of compliance.” This happens when
insecurity about one's existence prompts a defensive reaction in which the
“self” splits into separate components, the “real self” and the “false self,”
generating the psychotic symptoms characteristic of schizophrenia. “In
conformity,” he explains, “what one perceives or fancies to be the thing one
should be in the eyes of others becomes “the false-self,” a concept that
Stephen King refers to in <i>The Shining</i> as a “false face.” This thing “may
be a phoney sinner as well as a phoney saint,” Laing continues. “In the
schizoid person, however, the whole of his being does not conform and comply in
this way.” </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shame is key. In Religion, we are
taught to feel ashamed for being merely human or having human desires. Because
of beliefs in the stain of original sin, religious shame is not simply about
what sins we commit, but about the fact we are born sinners. In recovering from
trauma, a child first has to unlearn beliefs about themself as being unworthy or inherently flawed, so they can see that their feelings of shame over being born broken are, in fact, a lie, and therefore are nothing to feel ashamed of. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Guilt is different. We feel guilt for
something we've done wrong that we can improve on or avoid doing wrong again.
We learn how to add and subtract, for example, or not to play baseball near the neighbor’s house after we break their
window with our baseball. Shame is something we can't stop doing, however, because it is
the result of something being wrong with us. We either can't do simple arithmetic or we can't seem to care if we break a window or two with a baseball, and perhaps because we like to do so. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shame is a form of blame of who and
what we are, while guilt is about what we did. Guilt is something we can save ourselves from by learning to do better, but we need a “savior” to overcome our shame, because we
are powerless to change being born with sin-stained soul. One says we are ugly ducklings that must be given angels wings by a God for us to ever become a swan, which we are rewarded with after we die but only if we spent enough of our life trying to sell our Christian brand. The other starts with the premise that we are swans that have been traumatized into
believing, and therefore manipulated into accepting, that we are born with souls that are the spiritual equivalent of ugly ducklings. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">A parent that knows their unborn infant is perfectly healthy, but then decides to ingest alcohol in order to damage their child </span></span>would be guilty of Munchausen by proxy -- a psychological disorder marked by
attention-seeking behavior by a caregiver through those who are in their
care. A rare disorder among humans that leads caretakers, often the mother, to actually induce symptoms of sickness through various means, such as poisoning, suffocating, starving, and causing infection. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Christians worship their God for engaging in this very process, of creating children with souls sick with sin, and then go on to assure their own children that all of their problems are the result of not only being born with such an affliction, but failing to feed from the spiritual bosom of the Church that is the handmaiden of God Himself. When those children grow up and refuse to simply accept such claims from parents, especially from parents who hold such a "belief" as a source of spiritual pride while insisting such a "belief" makes them humble, it contributes to desires, and needs, by the children to distance themselves from such parents. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">As a result, children who are nurtured to believe they are spiritual cripples from birth that need a Church that acts like a spiritual crutch, which acts like a spiritual umbilical cord between the connects the "believer" to God the Father, begin to pull away from their parents who were taught to believe the same thing about themself as a child. And the rejection felt by the parent when their child begins to pull away triggers the unconscious feelings of rejection the parent experienced as a child seeking the approval of their own parents. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">And in the same way the parent was nurtured to conflate the approval they were getting from their parents with love, so too the parent conflates interpreting their child's willingness to adopt their own "beliefs" as a sign of the child's love for their parent. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">In part five, we will examine how this need for approval that starts with a child conflating that approval for genuine love grows to become narcissism when the child becomes an adult and a parent that equates "love" with the willingness of others to mirror their behaviors and beliefs, and hate with seeking one's authenticity, as much in oneself as in others. </p>
p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-9235945812271571162024-02-25T14:57:00.000-08:002024-03-02T21:40:53.242-08:00Understanding Religious Trauma: Part III Splitting the Adam<p style="text-align: center;">Unless
by pain and suffering thou art taught, Thou canst not guide thyself aright in
aught.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">St. Augustine<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In part II, we looked at how love has a near enemy that, while it looks a lot
like love, is in fact its opposite masquerading as the real thing. One leads to
the development of an emotionally healthy person, while the other creates
emotional deformities that foster spiritual dependence. One creates healthy
boundaries while the other creates porous boundaries. And as one nurtures our
inner swan, the other fosters a belief we are ugly ducklings.Ugly ducklings, in turn, learn how to get approval by being and doing whatever they need to to be accepted. And the addiction to approval they develop can lead to two results. One is an extreme altruism, and the other is a narcissism. And Christianity allows for the former to be used as a Trojan horse for the latter. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
this installment, we will discuss two key parts to understanding how
religious trauma affects us and sets us on a spiritual conveyor belt from ugly ducklings to narcissism, and how a Church functions to facilitate both into a feedback loop in which it can charge you 10% of your income in exchange for the "love" it provides. But as we will see, the "love" it provides is as different from real love as a candy bar is different from real food. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The first thing we will need to understand is how beliefs that teach
us to think of ourselves as inherently flawed and needing forgiveness not only sets us up for having to be continually adjusted, which is like buying a car you have to take to a mechanic every week, it addicts us to a counterfeit form of "love" which is really approval. Doing so frames
all forms of abuse, from neglect to physical or sexual abuse, as being both necessary and deserved, since suffering is understood as the only way to "redeem" us of the sinfully flawed nature we are born with. From the viewpoint of the person who sincerely "believes" they are
flawed to begin with, for which Jesus has to suffer for their "sins," accepting that such sin-flaws can only be remedied through suffering - suffering that serves as necessary punishment for those flaws - becomes a Pavlovian conditioned emotional response, one they come to believe they must experience as the price for God's approval/"love" on Judgement Day. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Second,
because such beliefs color perception, religious beliefs about one's inherently
sinful nature on the one hand, and that such sin requires expiation on the other, greatly impairs our ability to tell the difference between
love that cultivates our curiosity and authenticity, and attachment “love” that
fosters a need for approval and acceptance. Only attachment-love validates feelings of being flawed and sinful by nature, while only by healing from such beliefs can a person discover that such feelings are learned responses to abuse, for genuine love is the very opposite of judgements about imperfections. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No parent wills their child to be born flawed, even though God wills that all children are born sinners, and then blames the pre-sin-stained souls he "intelligently designs" on the "sinners" themselves. This is like making a computer and installing a flawed operating system then blaming the problem for the operating system on anyone who buys the computer. (With such reasoning, which every Christian has an obligation to employ, is it any wonder it is impossible to win an argument about the logic of Christianity?) <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And as far as curiosity goes, it is often treated in religion as "good" only when it leads a person to accept and depend ever more on the branded definition of the word "God" being sold by one religion or another, and "bad" when it leads to any other brand of God or no brand at all. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Worse still, the inability to tell
the difference between these two versions of "love" not only results
in the forming of an abusive relationship with ourselves, effectively reincarnating our inner ego into the "image and likeness" of an abusive parent within us like Norman Bates does with his own mother - the "god" within, as it were - but does so on both a psychological and even a neurological level. In effect, we develop an "auto-immune" disease of the mind, the effects
of which can lead to not only the behaviors of Norman's mom, but also serious health (and legal) problems for Norman himself. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And as it turns out, the magic ingredient for transforming pure innocence into narcissism that masquerades as altruism is shame. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Punishment We Deserve </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When
a Catholic engages in the sacrament of Confession, three things occur, two of which are real and one of which is "believed." The first
is they confess their sins to a priest. The second is the priest gives them
penance to perform, which often includes saying a number of Our Fathers and
Hail Marys. And third, the Catholic is suddenly and miraculously forgiven or "cured" of their "sin." Purgatory serves a similar function for saving souls. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For Catholics, Purgatory is a temporary hell in which the remnants
of sin left on a person's soul after they die are finally burned away, or
'purged.' Such a necessary purging of sins prior to being admitted through the
pearly gates, in the form of both penance and the suffering of purgatory,
illustrate for the child how, even if sin is "forgiven" through
Jesus, only by purging oneself of all sin are we capable of being in the
presence of God. Suffering, as such, is not only the thing that makes us sacred,
it is what happens when an unclean and imperfect being finds itself in the presence of a
holy and perfect God. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every child who dies as an infant, from this perspective, must still experience some form of suffering as their stain of original sin must still be purged from their soul before they can be in the presence of God. Christians bemoan abortion, claiming that the soul inhabits the fetus at conception (even though their "inerrant" scriptures says it does so only at birth), but praise a God who requires such suffering before those same souls can be in His divine presence. (To do this, they simply forget that if the soul they claim inhabits the soul at conception is also stained with original sin, and all sin is burned away in the presence of God, then even miscarriages result in the souls of innocent children having to suffer before they can be in the presence of such a God. How anyone is okay with worshiping such a God is a miracle. But I digress.)<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Although described in physical terms, children are taught to interpret feelings of shame as a law of cause and effect, and proof of God. Shame, so they are taught, is the effect caused by their "sin" against God. Feelings of shame, as a result, are used as the surest evidence that proves the existence of God, because if there was no God, then why would the child feel shame? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When Christians ask "if there was no God, why wouldn't you just run around killing and raping people?" they are expressing the same idea, that their fear of God comes with a sense of shame that keeps people (or just themselves) from running around killing and raping. For those who do not see shame as something implanted in us more to foster a dependence upon a brand of God (which really means a dependence upon a brand of Church or religion that is offering their own definition of such a word), not wanting to rape and kill other people is a function of a healthy sense of empathy, which leads them to "do unto others as you would have others do unto you," regardless of whether or what brand of "God" you subscribe to.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> And while shame can be a natural response, it can also be a conditioned response to brands of ideology, the same way a dog can be made to salivate not from food but from the ringing of a bell that the dog associates with the coming of food. And this is especially the case toward a narcissistic parent who requires the child to conform to the wishes of that parent, or priests and nuns who often teach that God requires similar conformity with His divine will. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Looking at the world through the lens of a belief that they are guilty of
offending a perfect God, as Christianity requires them to believe we are, allows any suffering a child may encounter to be automatically interpreted as a form of
punishment justly deserved. Such a perspective operates to silence children
from complaining about physical abuse they may be subjected to at home or in school, especially a
Christian school. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Coupled with a sense of shame related to sex, with the shame itself being the lasting effect of the abuse, such a
perspective is doubly effective in convincing the child they truly deserve to
be punished if they are sexually abused, because taboo sexual acts trigger both
a feeling of suffering the child may think they deserve for being a born
sinner, but also feelings of shame for the "sin" they have become a
party to, even though they don't like it and didn't have a choice. Using the idea that such "shame" and suffering was the only way to purge one's soul of sin was why abusers so often told the children they were abusing that the abuse they were inflicting on those children was "God's will." And since to doubt the priest is a sin deserving of hell, and suffering is the necessary means of purging one's soul of its sinful nature, all the child could do was be as submissive to the priest as Jesus was to the will of the Sanhedrin. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A child does not separate the physical act of a "sin" from whether they have consented to engage in it. They do not separate a guilty body from a guilty mind. For them, since the body is born flawed, it is the body that is engaged in the sin and the shame they feel is their soul telling them they are engaged in a sin. And the more
shame a child feels, the more that feeling confirms the child is guilty of being the sinner they
are taught to believe they are. And as everything from penance to purgatory to
Christ crucified confirms, the only way for the child to expunge their soul of
such sin is through their own punishment and suffering. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
feedback loop of a "belief" in one's sinful nature triggering
feelings of shame that confirm the "belief" one is a born sinner, as such, is
the basis of childhood trauma caused by Christianity. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Childhood Trauma is Different <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Childhood trauma is different from
other trauma, like war trauma or natural disaster trauma. </span>“Our other core need is authenticity, as Gabor Mate points out in <span id="quote_book_link_61204629"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/90801983">The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture</a>.</span> He defines "authenticity" as "the quality of being
true to oneself, and the capacity to shape one’s own life from a deep
knowledge of that self.” Christianity, however, requires us to believe that "being true to oneself" is to accept we are born sinners, and because we are, we owe an eternal dept of gratitude for a man who died for us as born sinners. But the only evidence offered by Christians to support the "belief" every child is a born sinner is that they are convinced that they are. This is hardly proof, of course, but it is more than enough for Christians. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">How can someone have the capacity to shape their own life from a deep knowledge of themself, if they must first accept they are the spiritual equivalent of an ugly duckling, when they may in fact be a flawless swan? <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The majority of trauma experienced by children happens with intimate family members, especially when the family member is a parent who teaches their child they are born sinners who need forgiveness..
Whenever there's an interpersonal trauma by a close family member, there's an
implied sense that we deserve it. Because of this, abuse never causes a child to stop trusting or loving their
parent. Because real love is without judgement, a child is incapable of ever
judging their parent's behavior toward them as being either right or wrong.
Instead, limited by their trusting innocence (which they are forced to rely on) to only being able to love without judgement, the child fully accepts the parent's behavior as always being
"true" and justified. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As Stephanie Martson pointed out, children see their parents as a god, and God's power over our lives boils down to His ultimately ability to judge us and sentence us accordingly. And in the same way Christians never question the righteousness of God's judgement to treat Sodom and Gomorrah like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or to flood the earth to drown sinners, so a child never questions the righteousness of their own parent either, no matter how abusive the parent may be, or how abusive a priest or nun may be as well. It is only decades later, once the child has learned to question such abuse, that they fully understand how they were being abused. Prior to that, their own mind will bury it to protect them from having to relive it. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Because of the emotional reaction it causes in the
child, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">abusive treatment is just as "true" to the child as treatment that is supportive and nurturing. Both are equally "right" to the child. Incapable of judging the parent as wrong, because they not only have nothing to compare it to but the part of their brain responsible for doing such comparisons
won't fully form until they are in their mid 20s, the child is left to interpret their treatment
as always being valid. Being taught to believe they are born a sinner who is powerless to change their sinful nature only reinforces the child's perception that, if they are being abused in some way, it must be their fault, at least to some degree. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From the child's perspective, what
they feel is simply a reflection of what the parent feels. The child, in this
sense, is simply an emotional mirror, which they happen to get trapped inside of. If the parent is angry toward the child,
the child accepts they must therefore be responsible for causing that anger and
seek to learn how to avoid doing so again. So, there's a level of blame that
accompanies the abuse and the trauma. If someone hates me this much, so the
belief tells us, it must therefore means there is something wrong, not with them, but with me. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because most of the child's natural behavior is met with disapproval, much of their efforts are spent trying to please yet never finding out what is effective and acceptable. The ante is always being upped, leaving the child to feel ever more confused, angry and depressed. Preoccupied with navigating such a maze, they never learn to please themself. Indeed, trying to do so only leads the child to feel "selfish," which is often what they are accused of by an abusive parent. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And when the child grows up, the child part of their mind continues to try to win the "love" of the internalized parent, the way Norman tries to win the approval of his internalized "mother." At the same time that Norman manifests his mother's disgust through his violent actions, so the dress he wears while engaging in such violence exonerates him of that crime, transferring responsibility for it to his internalized mother. So too, Christians transfer their own guilt and shame onto the cross even when the burn witches and heretics alike, while the person who serves as the conduit between Jesus and his faithful flock is a priest - who wears robes that look a bit like the dress Norman wears when he kills the object of his lust. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One way Norman's mother orchestrated this process whereby her ghost inhabited Norman began by requiring him to conform to her wishes the same way she had to conform to the wishes of her own abusive parent when she was a child. After all, if it turned out to be good for her, since she is convinced she turned out to be the best version of herself (at least as far as she's concerned), than for Norman to win the love of his internalized "mother" requires adopting her parenting style and applying it. And either he applies it to his own child or, since Norman has no children, he applies it instead to his tenants - like Marion Crane.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Inside Norman, his mother's rigid Christian rules went to war with Norman's lust for Marion Crane, with the former doing with a kitchen knife what the latter wanted to do with his penis, preserving salvation by replacing with sacred violence and suffering the shameful feeling of lust that threatened to drag Norman's soul into the everlasting fires of hell. <br /></span></p><br />p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-58994771085125954082024-02-25T13:30:00.000-08:002024-03-02T16:46:06.651-08:00Understanding Miracles: An Athiest Perspective Preface<p> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Preface </p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">“Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
<span class="authorOrTitle"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="authorOrTitle">St. Augustine </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="authorOrTitle"> </span></p><section class="header-content" style="background: none; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the
minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be
mind.</span></h1>
<div style="text-align: center;"><aside class="post-meta">
<span class="post-author">Friedrich Nietzsche</span>
</aside></div>
</section><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"> </span></span>Understanding
why people hold such radically different perspectives about miracles is
much easier than explaining what those differences are and why people
hold them as tightly as they do. But we will try to do so in what follows.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> To begin with, these two views are not mere categories but exist at opposite ends of a spectrum of perspective. At one end of the spectrum are those
who simply "believe" a miracle comes from a supernatural agent, called
either God or the devil, and mostly because
doing so evokes an emotional response that is undeniably real for them.
At the other end of that spectrum is a way of looking at the world that
is willing to let go of the comfort and security that comes from a belief in such supernatural agents in exchange for a chance to obtain a deeper
understanding about both the nature of reality and ourselves. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">As St. Augustine himself alluded to, we are left to wonder if one
view is more right than the other, and whether both are really as mutually exclusive as we "believe," or are these two perspectives just
different ways of looking at the same thing; one personifying the
unknown into a reflection of themselves, either their virtues or vices, and the other seeing merely a
reflection of their own limitations and the gaping maw of the unknown? Ironically, Augustine's claim that miracles were not contrary to nature was as heretical as the ideas of Baruch Spinoza and Giordano Bruno, two men who would late become victims of the very torture and imprisonment Augustine advocated as necessary for curing errors of divine revelation as purgatory and hell. <br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">To
venture into the questions posed by the many different interpretations
of what a "miracle" is first requires us to be aware of certain questions
along the journey. What a
person must ask themself before any attempt to understand the different
perspectives we have of miracles, as such, is what is more important to
themself as individuals, and what should be more important to us as members of a
complex species: defending traditional beliefs or evolving toward a
deeper more nuanced understanding of what it true, at least to the
degree that we are able to know truth, especially the truth about our
perceptions and ourselves? And if a conflict is found to exist between
these
two, which are we willing to sacrifice in order to follow in the
footsteps of the other? Which perspective, in other words, is not only
healthier for helping to foster understandings of differences, but
therefore comes with a greater moral obligation to follow in the name of
love for each other rather than love for a brand of a God? <br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> Nor is it simply a question of
whether there is only one way of looking at miracles, or even "God. "
Rather, while a "belief" seeks to claim there is only one way to look at what
we can call "a miracle," any attempt to understand anything
requires the intellectual honesty to admit that anything and everything
is always subject to multiple interpretations. The former is
as narrowly focused as a soldier trapped behind enemy lines, whose
tunnel vision is necessarily sharpened by the terror of being caught and tortured,
while the latter is as curious as a new born child, who is born fully
without fear and fascinated by everything they survey. Indeed, how much
is it like a wild animal to see the world through the eyes of the
former, and what else could it mean to be "born again" then to see the
world through the eyes of the latter? <br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">What follows is a journey through the awareness we have achieved today, <span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">which has allowed our intelligence and knowledge of the world and ourselves to crawl from the primordial slim of superstition which underwrites all our ideas. Every advance our species has made forward toward a higher understanding of anything has required the slow painstaking processes of shedding the dead skin of tradition in order to be led by the light of understanding to a higher truth. For as Nietzsche
observed, a mind that is unable to change its opinion in response to
new information ceases to be a mind. Rather, it becomes a robot or a
zombie, controlled like a puppet on the strings of a tradition by the
dead hands of a buried yet venerated past. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">To free ourselves from the bondage of beliefs which, for some, are literally as old as the dinosaurs, therefore requires </span></span>keeping the questions posed above in mind. For only by doing so can what follows shed any light on
why people have such radically different perspectives about miracles.
And only by understanding those differences can we determine which seem
more probable, and evolve to a higher understanding about ourselves and the universe we inhabit, the same way we did
about geocentrism, slavery, witches, racism, and much else. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">That being said, even if we choose to decide that miracles comes from a God, no need could be greater for our survival as a species than trying to understanding why others see something so radically different than we do. As such, while what follows is obviously from the perspective of an atheist, and is presented as an argument, it at the very least is an attempt to explain to "believers" why the very same "hand of God" we rely on for our economics is the one the atheist is relying on to show that miracles, far from being merely supernatural acts outside of nature, are merely "contrary to what we know about nature." And those who claim otherwise appear to be acting less on a faith in God, and more out of a faith in their own infallibility, about both nature and their own mind. <br /></p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740897131638037663.post-58834884151507932542024-02-25T13:07:00.000-08:002024-02-25T14:26:32.624-08:00Understanding Miracles: An Athiest Perspective Part VII <p style="text-align: center;">“Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with
miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery,
even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.”
<br />
</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span> </span> <span class="authorOrTitle">
Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
</span>
<span id="quote_book_link_4934">
<a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3393910">The Brothers Karamazov</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span id="quote_book_link_4934"> </span><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> "In
the beginning" were the questions we asked concerning this conflict
between what one believes and what one comes to understand, or between the findings of careful scientific investigation and the proclamations of religions that give us comfort in an uncertain world,
questions that needed to be kept in mind during this brief survey of why
and how people see miracles from such radically different perspectives.
The questions the reader needed to keep in mind, and to ask themself,
before any attempt to understand these different perspectives concerning
miracles, or
anything else for that matter, is what was more important to them as both an individual and as a member of a species: their
beliefs, which allow them to relate to one group even as they oppose those with different beliefs, or the truth as far as we can ever know it, which is universal to our whole species? And if a conflict is found to exist between the
two, which are they willing to sacrifice in order to follow in the
footsteps of the other? Should we remain within the guardrails of our
beliefs, in other words, or venture off-road and outside the lines of
our well-worn synaptic forests and, like Robert Frost, take the path
less traveled by? <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What
followed was then a brief consideration of the power of mathematics to
refine our understanding of the true nature of realty, so we could see the difference between how what is believed by some to be divine looks exactly like mere repeating patterns by others. More than mere
words, numbers, which have discovered and unmasked greater truth about
everything from the elliptical orbits of planets to the nature of the
solar system to the Higgs boson and the multiverse and beyond, than
sacred scriptures have, continue to reveal to us just how much we have
been mistaken in our understandings of reality. And if following truth
is a not only our goal but also a moral obligation we all have, both to
our own sanity and to all others beings with whom we share this planet,
then which path should we follow? The one that leads to the truths about
reality as best we are able to know them, or which leads to confirming
"beliefs" that often stand in as much defiant conflict with the truths found by
using our best methods of investigation, by some of the brightest minds
of our species, as they stand in opposition to anyone who has a different "belief" about the same thing? <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Between
the classical and the
quantum view of physics, physicist Werner Heisenberg explained how words
can
get in the way of actually understanding what is really going on with
reality
itself. Math - the same math that Christians rely on to illustrate
examples of objective truth, and which now govern everything from
economics to physics to finance to the development of AI - revealed an
objective truth about the true
nature of miracles. They did this by revealing that Einstein was only
seeing half the picture of
reality, for example, missing the rich complexity of quantum mechanics
that
Bohr had discovered through the looking glass of numbers. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like the truth about the solar system and elliptical planetary orbits to morphogensis,
zig-zag geometric shapes, quantum mechanics, fractals, and even Bayesian inferences, that could only be
seen through the lens of mathematics, so David Hand demonstrated how that
same looking glass allows us to zoom out and see miracles from a
God’s-eye-view. Doing so allowed us to discover that what we define as
"miracles" are comprised of a trinity of human components: a penchant
for pattern recognition, a craving for meaning, and a lousy aptitude for
complex mathematics that disposes us to crave simple answers to life’s most
complex questions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> And to top it all off,
engaging in all three of these components triggers an endorphin release in
those areas of our brain that make us feel an agent somewhere must be looking
out for us, “saving” us from a cold cruel and wholly indifferent
universe. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then
there is the problem of confusing the process by which we heal our
physical conditions by first healing our psychological fissures in our
subconscious. This can happen with religion and without it. But when it
occurs in the former instance, it does not prove a causal connection
between the healing and the existence of God, it merely illustrates a
causal connection between the person's healing and the particular way in
which that person interpreted their religious beliefs. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Only when those
beliefs lead a person to accept that they are worthy enough as they are,
not because they are born ugly-sinner-ducklings who need saving but because they are
swans who are perfect in all their imperfections, do they begin to be born again.
However much a church connects a person to a community, as important as
that is, more important is the persons ability to heal thyself, by
feeling worthy enough exactly as they are, and embracing whoever they
desire to be. For that, and that alone, is what a "gift" like life can
give. And the only way to show one's true gratitude for such a gift is
not to allow others to rob you of the chance to become the masterpiece
we are born to be. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> What all of this boils down to for the atheist is that it is certainly not a
belief in "miracles" that is the problem between Christians and
atheists, but the different meanings that each derives from them. The Christian
accepts miracles to be “signs” sent from a God who, rather than ever showing
himself, prefers instead to offer only hints of his existence by selectively
showing to those who “believe” He exists already “miracles” that are ambiguous
enough to be highly debatable on the one hand, or merely the result of chance
on the other. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What
makes the Christian interpretation of miracles so problematic, however,
is two things. First, it requires accepting that, despite being born
with the limiting effects of sin on their soul, they have an infallible
ability to know the difference between what is a miracle and what ain't.
And simply because they "believe" they do. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And second, a belief in miracles overrides a person's sense of "free will," as the
person who believes in them no longer feels "free" to ignore them as ambiguous mysteries.
Rather, they feel compelled to have to accept them as true signs from
God of God's threats, lest they ignore them at their eternal peril. But
why give people free will, only to require them to "have faith" that
cannot be substantiated by scientific evidence, and then provide
miracles that also cannot be verified by any scientific means, and can
only be inferred as coming from a supernatural agent as evidence of that
agent's existence, in order to frighten people into surrendering their
"free will" in order to save themselves from a hell that also cannot be
demonstrated to exist in any way shape or form? What the hell is God's
point of playing so complicated and asinine a game? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> In short, the Christian thinks
a miracle informs us about the existence of a higher intelligence, while the
atheist knows a miracle is simply evidence of our own ignorance. And while one
sees them as a license to act like God, the other sees them as a reminder that
we are only human.</span></p>p michael heffronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334603879667948634noreply@blogger.com0