>>5616When it comes to my religion, I always discourage people from taking any interest in it. It's been made tragically redundant and alien in a world that seems less and less inclined to tolerate its existence. Unless you're somebody disposessed in some way, you'll never understand it. Christians have their elite intellectuals, their wealthy shills and chruchmen etc. our religion thrives in ghettos, in the barios, on death row, in prisons, and refugee camps. If you're not on the bottom or estranged in some fundamental way, then you'll never understand it except maybe at the abstract academic level.
All the great sages and prophets were displaced in some way. Joseph was sold into slavery, Moses was dumped in a river, Confucius roamed from state to state looking for employment, Laozi fled from civilization. And often the divine (whatever you wanna call it) comes in the form of a stranger, like the burning bush, Gabriel in the cave at Ghar Hira, the schizo Andreyev hallucinating in his gulag cell. Divinity resists everything terrestrial. This is why since ancient times people found God while roaming the desert.
Faith is dead.
