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the fear of learning
one of my biggest problems with "christianity" is how it often ecurages an envrionment which is afraid of learning things that are not comfortable. sientific thinking can often be charaterisaed as overly anilitical or "non spiritual" or even directly at odds with faith in the religion.
i've found that the process of labeling something as "dangerous" causes you to distance yourself from the thing you've labeled. intead of encourageing understanding, what this encurages is fear and disgust. this can be super menial things like certain catigories of food, or on the worse case, "catagories" of people. "the unbelives are the spiritually forsaken. we must save them." "atheists have been tricked by the forces of evil, they understand not through knowlage, but through dogma." "evolution is worldly consruction that tries to deny the singular beuty of god's creation." these kinds of phrases are not helpful when trying to understand perspectives apart from our own. they recapture the emotional atention of those who already agree with the words. learning somthing new means being somewhat uncomfortable. and it does not help that many of the beliefs of "christianity" are extreamly entangled with the sources of meaning in a persons life. everytime new information confilicts whith a held belief, a exsitential crisis unfolds, and usually the only way to mitigate this is by reforming the beliefs which were thought to be so imutable. then we were "simly mistake about the true form of god's wisdom." and we try again.
this is a highly self desructive mental environment that i have no desire to join in again.
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