Religion itself also holds zero unique value.
Spirituality, fate, luck, fortune, purpose, intuition, community, will, courage, etc, are all things that people regularly experience outside the church or any particular belief system.
I think it’s fine if people attribute things to “God’s will” or find community in the church. Whatever gets you there. But that ends pretty quickly when those reasons for good are also used to exclude, shame, repress, or harm people, which also happens to be a hallmark both historically and in present day of many organized religions.
1. Believing God speaks to you is implausible but widely accepted
2. Believing you saw an alien spaceship is plausible but a punchline
3. Believing you hear non-descript voices telling you to do things is considered a mental illness
The fact that number 2 is the most plausible but considered a joke by the majority of society while number 1 and 3 are virtually identical and yet society’s view of them almost polar opposite should tell us something.
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