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Politics is being blended into religion and vice versa so it still has some life yet.

Why not? We have anime, furries, marvel, DC, Star Trek, Star Wars….

It’s just another niche group to belong to.

Our fragile minds still get scared. While looking for answers, you can find those who claim to have them.

How did the big bang happen?

I, personally, am a christian-- not despite modern science, but partially because of it. I was raised as christian, but before I made the decision to be baptized I did a lot of research and decided that the Bible has the best explanation for why things are the way they are. What actually disgusts me, however, is when people say that they're a "christian" but then just keep doing whatever they were doing before-- I personally think that many "christians" today behave more like the jewish leaders that killed Jesus than like Jesus Himself. Like Jesus said to them, "You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!" (mark 7:9).

Before ignorance, before community, before any of the "behavior" we typically associate with religious people, comes hubris. Only man thinks he is important enough to be chosen by the almighty God to receive the knowledge that he is special and worthy of an afterlife. Doesn't make people bad, or even stupid, just so preoccupied with philosophical and scientific questions they didn't think to seek out the people that actually have the answers.

Mf you are aware of how improbable it is that we exsist in the base reality right?

I have a minor in religious studies because belief in things outside science seemed ridiculous.

Then, a couple years ago I was walking my dog with my wife talking about Huitzilopochtli & a hummingbird flew from the top of a giant redwood to about a foot from my face, flew in a perfect square 7 times, then back to the top.

Then I was under a sycamore tree at the Rosicrucian temple in San Jose meditating on Hathor & inadvertently copied a statue of Plato when I tried to clean a cobweb off it with a walking stick & a single leaf fell gently to the exact middle of my feet.

Then I was driving & thinking about getting a tattoo of Horus when a falcon began flying next to my head outside my driver’s side window for about 5 seconds, flew past my windshield, perched on a freeway sign & watched me drive off.

I could go on but the gist is I always said I couldn’t believe unless I had concrete proof & now I have concrete proof.

God seems more likely than the alternative tbh