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⌈ Secret Post #2918 ⌋

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Re: Crisis of faith-iness

[flipthefrog.livejournal.com]

First off--OP, it is totally doable to believe in guardian angels/spirits without buying into the whole Christian God thing. Like every religion ever has some sort of personal protector belief, although whether that protection stems from a single higher power, a number of individual powers, or even your own personal energy depends on the religion. Maybe St. Christopher had his hand on you--or maybe the kami of that stretch of road liked you, or the dead relative you were thinking about last week did you a favor, or maybe even the emotional energy you put into your car came back to help you. Who the fuck knows? Decide what you like best, and what you can fit into your own worldview.

Second, it sounds a lot like you're being alienated from religion by the actions of the religious people you know. That's totally OK and honestly pretty understandable. I personally believe it's at least hypothetically possible for people to be able to manipulate some kind of bio-energy field, but since every single Reiki practitioner I've ever met has been the worst kind of dippy hippy bullshit-collector, I would rather gouge my own eyes out than admit it to any of them. It is perfectly okay to be very quiet and personal about your religious beliefs, whatever they are.

Finally, it's totally cool to continue developing your belief system to fit your new experiences and knowledge as you go along. You don't need to have the same kind of feelings about religion as your facebook friends in order to count yourself as believing in something. If you eventually do, that's okay too! A friend of mine in high school had some sort of religious revelation in college and is now a full-blown missionary, and from what I can tell she's having the time of her life trusting in the Lord. But don't try and force it if it isn't coming, you'll just make yourself really miserable. Organized religion isn't for everybody (take it from someone who used to be Catholic).

I hope you end up comfortable with what you believe, OP. (joking-not-joking: read Small Gods by Terry Pratchett and see if it helps, because despite the fact it's a satirical fantasy novel, there's an embarrassing amount of that worldview in my own personal belief system.)