Leaving your childhood religion is an exercise in splitting. You want to smash the beliefs you once held dear; you need to keep them intact to hold on to a sense of self that’s no longer clear. You end up excising them from the body of your old belief system and grasping the quiveri...
It may seem impossible that this would occur in the present day. Carl Sagan would disagree: “If we’re absolutely sure that our beliefs are right, and those of others are wrong; that we are motivated by good, and others by evil; (…) that it is wicked to challenge conventional doctrin...
It’s time to introduce a subculture within a subculture:DezNat. Like so much in our times, this is an online community hoping (and in some cases) acting to bring about their preferred utopia. And they are radical in their beliefs. Not everyone ticks every box, of course, Some of the ...