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It is a thing(y)...in words in a letter, and theory...but not in how it actually has always been.
The original inhabitants of the U.S were Spiritual, but not Religious...in no time, it was all heavily Abrahamic Religious.
Because the Government officials pushed it harder than GEICO pushes it's insurance...even onto the Native People (well, the ones they hadn't killed) as well.
So...no..."Separation of Church and State" is not "a thing", (and never has been)...beyond a diversionary tactic to make The People complacent, while they ran (run) their desired game.
Yes...I am certain the kind of "bad vibes" that it requires to negatively view prayers towards one's well being....will come back on a person. And that will be a ....
When I was younger I used to resent religion with a passion, cause I thought it was kinda opressive, coercive, overly dogmatic, pretentious and just too conformist
Now that I am getting older and having recently experienced a recent serious existential crisis(though to be fair, it had to moreso with the feeling of having felt like I overcame a lot of adversity in the name of little to nothing in return, a very personal feeling)
It was at this moment I realized that importance of religion and the sense of purpose, structure, enlightenment and spiritual guidance it kinda provides
You can't just live a life with a void of nothingness, I learned this the hard way
That's where the religious instinct kinda comes from, the urge to look up to a higher sense of order or one's self
Being religously curious as of late, I decided to get at it and research after-death experiences
I can confirm that the following are real
Heaven, Abyss? Atlantis and claims of reincarnation
I believe death is a gamble, a probability game. Just like how you can't decide your birth circumstances, I don't think we can choose our birth destiny
So, with religion declining big time, should we expect to see more existential dreads in our upcoming generations of youth? Why or why not? The reason being, is how are kids going to cultivate themselves into finding deeper meaning out of anything???
Well, believing in some thing is more reliable than denying everything.
Maybe we be honest about how to form beliefs and fight bad religious people. I see no reason that we can't believe stuff, talk about that stuff, question other atheist and demand atheist follow the rules of logic too. And stand up to over bearing religion.
Atheism is way stronger than religious looking atheist give it credit for to me.
I'm fine if religion declines, so spirituality can increase. Trimming the fat and waste to get to the real "meat" and nourishment.
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