Entry 851 - Entry 869
Entry 851 - Sept 15th One of the most damaging beliefs from certain denominations of Christianity that, to this day, I am still de-conditioning from is trusting myself. It might not seem like a big deal, but it’s huge. This encompasses every aspect of oneself: trusting one’s intellect, trusting one’s memory, trusting one’s ideas, and trusting one’s journey. I realized that Christianity conditioned me to be dependent on multiple layers. In order to be dependent on God, I was conditioned that I needed to be dependent on Christianity. In order to be dependent on Christianity, I needed to be dependent on the Christian church. In order to be dependent on the Christian church, I needed to be dependent on the Bible. In order to be properly dependent on the Bible, I needed to be dependent on the proper interpretations of the Bible from the church. The levels of dependency were deeply embedded into one another until you couldn’t imagine God without any other aspect of Christianity. Religio...