>>511382762Well I've been thinking:
most of the time when the notion of religious belief comes up I tend to have the worst impression or gut feelings of it.
For example, the idea in Christianity of attending church but moreover that God is always watching you and ready to kick your fucking ass.
That bothers me
the point is, it's not possible to progress beyond this basic impression. No amount of blab or theological/spiritual 'exploration', meditation, prayer or discussion is able to dispel this
Basically what I'm saying is:
religious belief appears to me to be (on the individual-human scale) a form of paranoid schizophrenia, and (on the mass societal scale) a form of authoritarian control.