Your faith has made you weak and you sure af aren't inheriting the earth, you're helping to throw it away.
Go read or watch a few YT vids about Kierkegaard, a Christian, then we can have a good conversation about different lifestyles (hedonistic vs ethical vs Christian life of faith). From reading him I hope you find that Christianity cannot be justified by argument/reason/logic/apologetics. It requires a leap of faith, because the Christian worldview is absurd.
Christianity makes no sense within an Enlightenment logical/scientific worldview -- which is not to say such a worldview is the limit of human experience, far from it. The mystery of God, unknown except though faith, was lost during the Enlightenment. The attempt to rationalise Christianity within a scientific framework effectively made God an idol of human intellectual agency. That idol was smashed and led to the nihilism that many people still suffer today. The Brother Karamazov tells of this, as does Nietzsche and Kierkegaard.
I don't recommend a life of Christian faith, because only a very small number of remarkable individuals can live it sincerely (e.g. Abraham, Moses, etc.). Many more can live an ethical life while being nominally Christian. I much prefer nominal Christians to secular humanists, as the latter are far more dogmatic, hypocritical and virtue-signally nowadays. Most secular humanists don't see how their beliefs grew out of Christianity and so their assertions about equality and so forth are dogmatic.
I'd like to do away Christian dogma altogether, because I think most modern-day Christianity is still prone to nihilism, toward becoming a form of stale hypocrisy. It has also become captive to political correctness and lacks the will and sense of righteousness to assert itself and impose morality on others.
Secular Humanism has been overrun by Cultural Marxism/PC and is driven by resentment. It's for bug man and cat ladies who want to consume and virtue-signal while not caring about anything but their personal comfort.
The buzzwordy 'third way' I advocate is through the virtue ethics of Aristotle and the Stoics. I think this rediscoovered morality is just what we in the West need if our civilization is going to MAGA the world again.
Go read or watch a few YT vids about Kierkegaard, a Christian, then we can have a good conversation about different lifestyles (hedonistic vs ethical vs Christian life of faith). From reading him I hope you find that Christianity cannot be justified by argument/reason/logic/apologetics. It requires a leap of faith, because the Christian worldview is absurd.
Christianity makes no sense within an Enlightenment logical/scientific worldview -- which is not to say such a worldview is the limit of human experience, far from it. The mystery of God, unknown except though faith, was lost during the Enlightenment. The attempt to rationalise Christianity within a scientific framework effectively made God an idol of human intellectual agency. That idol was smashed and led to the nihilism that many people still suffer today. The Brother Karamazov tells of this, as does Nietzsche and Kierkegaard.
I don't recommend a life of Christian faith, because only a very small number of remarkable individuals can live it sincerely (e.g. Abraham, Moses, etc.). Many more can live an ethical life while being nominally Christian. I much prefer nominal Christians to secular humanists, as the latter are far more dogmatic, hypocritical and virtue-signally nowadays. Most secular humanists don't see how their beliefs grew out of Christianity and so their assertions about equality and so forth are dogmatic.
I'd like to do away Christian dogma altogether, because I think most modern-day Christianity is still prone to nihilism, toward becoming a form of stale hypocrisy. It has also become captive to political correctness and lacks the will and sense of righteousness to assert itself and impose morality on others.
Secular Humanism has been overrun by Cultural Marxism/PC and is driven by resentment. It's for bug man and cat ladies who want to consume and virtue-signal while not caring about anything but their personal comfort.
The buzzwordy 'third way' I advocate is through the virtue ethics of Aristotle and the Stoics. I think this rediscoovered morality is just what we in the West need if our civilization is going to MAGA the world again.
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