I support religion as long as it gives people a sense of community, hope, and strength.
I used to feel this way. Then 2020 happened and I realized just how damaging any degree of magical thinking and faith based reasoning was for a society.
I no longer think there’s an innocuous amount of irrationality. Just varying degrees of social harm that come with any of it.
If it’s personal don’t answer, but are you going to dump the theology studies? I am a bit curious, since when I lost my faith I lost my interest in doing academic work on theology.
If you do please publish your stuff on the Gospel of Thomas first.
I used to feel this way. Then 2020 happened and I realized just how damaging any degree of magical thinking and faith based reasoning was for a society.
I no longer think there’s an innocuous amount of irrationality. Just varying degrees of social harm that come with any of it.
If it’s personal don’t answer, but are you going to dump the theology studies? I am a bit curious, since when I lost my faith I lost my interest in doing academic work on theology.
If you do please publish your stuff on the Gospel of Thomas first.
Not at all. I have never believed in the supernatural, so that’s not related to my interest or lack thereof in the material.
I am actually toying with the idea of writing out some of the Thomas research in more depth soon, actually.
Still not under a real name like with a book or anything, but some longer posts vs just comments.