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Half my family is evangelical. Looks pretty much the same to me over there.
How so? There's no evangelical institution, that's kind of the appeal, you can be evangelical and consider your home your church and canon
Yes, but I'm less concerned with the institution than I am with the troubling nature of belief in God.
Both Catholics and evangelicals (and Muslims and jews and most other faiths) believe in something.
Whether it's just me and my God or it's me and a long tradition is not what bothers me. The scam is in the necessity to believe in something that might be pretend.
Interesting, can't relate, was raised by a Catholic family and never bought in. Mocked the hocus pocus.
As I got older I see religion as a tool for separating people from God. Man mucking up something divinely intuitive.
Now I just see godless people as a lacking humility, thankfulness, and the inherit trust that requires. ie, my younger self. Needn't be much more than that.
Is it not equally humbling to view oneself as dust?
Thankfulness would seem to require a being to whom we are thankful, but I think a person could be happy or pleased to be alive and healthy in much the same way a person of faith might be grateful.
Inherent trust is the most interesting aspect of this to me. When I mentioned Chesterton Fences, I was thinking of something like this: is their something about a belief in God that puts one in a mindset or posture that is better than not?
If you're dust then why would it hurt your ego so much to be duped believing in something that may not be?
Thankfulness is acknowledgeling synchronicity, as Jung put it, things beyond your control that aren't mere coincidence.
is their something about a belief in God that puts one in a mindset or posture that is better than not?
Yes, from a purely utilitarian perspective faith is a best practice. I find Scripture interesting, not religion as it's generally viewed, it's the original open source knowledge base. It persist millennia because the lessons are intuitive and resonate accordingly. I don't just mean Christian either, they all share my same lessons and themes.
Conflated God and religion, many such cases esp in Catholic families