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⌈ Secret Post #4022 ⌋

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Re: Things you straight up do not get.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I'm "loosely" Catholic, myself. I believe in God. I believe He loves me and everyone else. I believe Christ died and rose again. I receive Communion. I pray the Rosary. I feel a sense of peace from it all. I take a lot of amusement from watching people pick apart the Bible.

A great Doctor Who quote: "Stories are where memories go when they've been forgotten."

I don't look at the individual words in the Bible. I look at the stories being told. *Something* powerful happened thousands of years ago. Maybe it was nothing like it's written in the Bible. The point is *something* happened if the stories are still being repeated and believed in thousands of years later.

That's how I see it, anyhow. I accept that there are aspects of God no one can describe. The faith comes from a feeling of "I don't know what to expect next, but I trust that it'll be awesome."

Re: Things you straight up do not get.

[mimi_sardinia]

I believe in God. I believe He loves me and everyone else. I believe Christ died and rose again. [...] I feel a sense of peace from it all.

Barring the very Catholic Church rituals (I am from a Protestant denomination), this sounds like me. Believing in God, Jesus, and finding comfort and assurance in the idea of a loving Divine Being watching over me and helping me cope with my life.

People could think of that as a psychological coping mechanism, but I want to believe in God because the idea of no God existing feels very empty.

Re: Things you straight up do not get.

[(Anonymous)]

the idea of no God existing feels very empty.

Why? I'm honestly curious as someone who doesn't believe in or "get" religion at all.

Re: Things you straight up do not get.

[mimi_sardinia]

Do you have an organisation that you like and the existence of it reassures you that there is something good in the world, even if you don't directly engage with them? Something like the RSPCA helping animals, or medical charities. Try and think about it like that - you may never need their help but you are glad they exist.

Now yes, I acknowledge God has far less proof of His existence, but believing He is somewhere out there is a similar feeling of reassurance.

Re: Things you straight up do not get.

[(Anonymous)]

Not particularly? I mean, I'm glad those things exist, but there would be people doing the same thing (helping others) even if those organizations themselves didn't exist. I've seen enough spontaneous fundraisers and the like to know that there is good in the world whether or not it exists within a larger framework. I believe that most people are good and will do good things if given the chance and that's enough to make me happy, I guess?

Re: Things you straight up do not get.

[mimi_sardinia]

Then think of that belief as the reassuring thing somewhat equivalent to my belief on God. When I even have problems believing in people being good, believing in another good thing helps keep me from totally losing hope.