Sorry for taking a bit to get back to you in this… brain can only handle so much in a day, as can my broken body that has been doing basically only physical therapy for the last… 6? 9 months?

fucking yeeehaw…

Anyway:

Ok, it seems I have overestimated your religiosity, apologies for that, absolutely self-projection from my own experience there.

I come from a right wing, fundie family, and… basically had to deconstruct and reject all of it to be able to … move forward as an actually sentient and self-aware person, is how I would describe it, haha.

You sound like you have a … much less intense and extreme background with the concept of faith than I do, and that we do seem to have somewhat different conceptions of related concepts and terms.

As you describe it in this latest comment… yeah, that sounds reasonable, healthy, non delusional.

I don’t think I can find real fault with anything you’ve said here, which is a cumbersome way of saying I agree, hahaha!

Also, yes, I do not mean to be overly confrontational, I mean to have a constructive conversation where we can both learn =D

After all, as you say… beliefs derive from one’s knowledge and lived experiences, and I am happy that this convo has been one of those experiences.

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I will freely admit I am literally traumatized from my own past… but I would also say that this is the case for a whole lot more people in the US, anarchist or not, than a lot of non US people seem to realize.

We really are just Ya’ll Qaeda over here, it is apparently just difficult for those who haven’t lived it to concieve of it.

I don’t mean that as an insult to your intelligence or anything like that, I just consistently find that … it is simply true that the US has a way worse homegrown religious extremism problem than many outside the US seem to understand… roughly once a month, somewhere on lemmy, I end up in some lengthy, polite and informative discussion with a European, where I show them stats, describe things in more detail… and they more or less go ‘oh holy shit I did not realize it was that bad and that commonplace’.

So… yeah, apologies again for trauma-projecting.