Friday, January 27, 2023

Genuine Belief or Self-Service?

 

How can anyone think that it is legitimate to make up one’s own belief system about spirituality and the afterlife? Corresponding to this is the practice of selecting various beliefs and practices from a wide variety of conflicting religious systems. Reducing any belief system down to its foundations teaching establishes theories and practices that are exclusive.

When someone holds beliefs and practices that are internally inconsistent, they must understand the fallacy of doing so. Unless someone doesn’t actually believe what they claim to believe and only do so to make themselves feel better. Self-deception is a reality and internally inconsistent beliefs cannot hold up to critique. What does life look like for one who is living a lie?


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