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2026-05-07 12:30 UTC

@thatfrisiangirlish@blahaj.zone this is such a good take, and something I've been grappling with in the past year or so as I embrace witchiness. I know my beliefs in this regard are unfounded, a matter of faith. Almost the point of it all is to sit with uncertainty, to be comfortable with not knowing. Peace necessitates being able to be in relation to others who might have wildly different philosophies, and to do that I think it's necessarily to have at least an inking of the contingent nature of our own belief system.

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@thatfrisiangirlish@blahaj.zone 2026-05-07 15:38

@Tattie@eldritch.cafe I don't think faith is about being right or wrong in the sense of an accurate description of the world. However... yes, peace. Within yourself, with others. And that's the gripe I have with cults, and most organized religion that I encountered - it is about being right, to exclusion, to war, to eternal damnation. In that sense, the redecorated structure of a lot of vocal atheists is belief and religion, the faith in being right. That's why I think loudly pointing out inconsistencies and falsehoods in the bible won't convince anyone, because to a believer, the presented facts don't matter, but the mindset to navigate uncertainty in life does. Biblethumpers don't care about accurate translations (possibly, but mostly actually not) pertaining to gay and trans people, they care about being given certainty about something they are uncertain about.

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