Plantagenet wrote:C8 wrote:I think the world is suffering from inadequate religion.
That's what ISIS thinks as well.
The trouble is how do you wage war on cognitive dissonance? When those you are trying to educate have actually already been told what you are trying to tell them, and they deliberately reject it because the sense of it escapes them, do you keep on trying? Is religion, the spirit and truth of it, something that needs better marketing? There is an insidious character within those who cling to rules. They come with a deeply embedded love for nostalgia that corrupts everything they do. It's like how childhood sets up a person for life. Their particular brand of nostalgia casts everything in its light. All political decisions and victories are examined in that light. The most horrible atrocities can be invisible before it, if they argue against or disprove the nostalgia. In fact, the logic of atrocity can actually seem beneficial. Repentance is about getting at your own nostalgia. Repentance is about confronting the puzzle pieces that make you up. Repentance is about asking if they do actually tell the story you think they do. Repentance is what early Christianity, before it was called Christianity, was based on. Back when those people followed something they called the Way repentance was repentance unto the forgiveness of sin.