Entry 368 - Religions Teach Projections
10/1/20
Statistically, it is shown that religious people tend to use their critical thinking skills less than non-religious people, and there’s a reason for that. If you are in a religion that requires you to believe something is true, your continual membership banks on the fact that you believe as everyone else does. When you stop believing it, things become awkward because the whole meeting could revolve around that particular way of believing.
Secondly, I think many religions teach people to project their glories and terrors outside of themselves and see themselves as victims of life. They see anything bad as coming from Satan and his minions, and anything good as coming from God and His angels. I’m not saying that is or isn’t true, but my point is they remove any possibility that they are potentially responsible for the events, the people, and the hardships in their lives, and instead see themselves solely as victims to everything outside of them.
This type of thinking is incredibly toxic because if you aren’t responsible, then you can’t take ownership. If you don’t take ownership, how do you convince yourself to change it? You become a punching bag to life, thrown around by all sorts of good and bad, and what type of existence is that?
Spirituality teaches you that you are 100% responsible for your life on this earth. That you created a plan before you came, angels are helping you execute it while you’re here, and one day you will leave with all that responsibility still intact. You do not have a victim mindset; instead, you see yourself as in control of your personal life.
This is a place for you to grow, to learn lessons, to evolve, to become more like God, and it wouldn’t make sense if you didn’t have full control over your life and were a victim of life. You create your glories, you create your terrors, and through them, you either get closer to God or closer to chaos and insanity. But the choice is yours—it’s always been yours.
Statistically, it is shown that religious people tend to use their critical thinking skills less than non-religious people, and there’s a reason for that. If you are in a religion that requires you to believe something is true, your continual membership banks on the fact that you believe as everyone else does. When you stop believing it, things become awkward because the whole meeting could revolve around that particular way of believing.
Secondly, I think many religions teach people to project their glories and terrors outside of themselves and see themselves as victims of life. They see anything bad as coming from Satan and his minions, and anything good as coming from God and His angels. I’m not saying that is or isn’t true, but my point is they remove any possibility that they are potentially responsible for the events, the people, and the hardships in their lives, and instead see themselves solely as victims to everything outside of them.
This type of thinking is incredibly toxic because if you aren’t responsible, then you can’t take ownership. If you don’t take ownership, how do you convince yourself to change it? You become a punching bag to life, thrown around by all sorts of good and bad, and what type of existence is that?
Spirituality teaches you that you are 100% responsible for your life on this earth. That you created a plan before you came, angels are helping you execute it while you’re here, and one day you will leave with all that responsibility still intact. You do not have a victim mindset; instead, you see yourself as in control of your personal life.
This is a place for you to grow, to learn lessons, to evolve, to become more like God, and it wouldn’t make sense if you didn’t have full control over your life and were a victim of life. You create your glories, you create your terrors, and through them, you either get closer to God or closer to chaos and insanity. But the choice is yours—it’s always been yours.
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