Yikes. There is quite a pattern developing in the religious right, in the US at least. We are turning back the clock folks.

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    1 year ago

    Is it useful to view spirituality as makeshift philosophy and psychotherapy? When I pick out the good parts of religion, I see it’s not so different to what a stoic or my therapist might say. You can either pray for or visualize positive outcomes and either way it works to ease the mind. Hell, Nietzsche’s work has basically a religious conception (the Eternal Return) without claiming absolute authority of reality.

    I ask because my Mom focuses on this aspect of her religion rather than dogma. I hope it gives her what she needs.