I was discussing the renaissance of Christianity and return to Christ the other day with some friends. For our generation, elder millennial I guess you’d say, we went through the staunch materialist new atheist movement and we were righteous pricks in our 20s about how dumb it was to believe in God (2000s).
Then came the Peterson era (2016-2019ish) where we decided that materialist scientism didn’t have what we needed, so we approached Christianity, safely, from the analytic psychological and philosophical chair. Peterson was famous for stopping short of calling himself a Christian, even as he did psychological symposiums on biblical stories.
Now we’re here, and I’m done with the sophistry and theatrics, and I’m just surrendering to God and cultivating that relationship.
I’m acting on, and practicing faith, instead of pussyfooting around it.
God comes to you when you’re ready.
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A lot of us are on the same path. Annoyed but understanding of the folly of our youth
This is probably the most concise summary of anything I've read ever.
This but add a mystical experience on mushrooms
#word #realtalk #exact #point
You were fake then & you were fake now.
Unlike you sell outs who cosplayed as soldiers , I actually enlisted into the military & had my ass served right back to me.
Any illusions of " God & country " were broken. I never even saw the battlefield. Chaptered out half way in to training. NOTHING ABOUT THIS IS NORMAL !
I could never find a liking to a biblical God as a personal subject.
However only God = Love connects me to highest purpose in living.
We journeyed through the wilderness, to the edge. We looked over. The philosophy and psychedelics and meditation had their moments, ripped away the veil. But it was easy to see the human wreckage around us, those lost in the fog, nothing to hold on to, the confusion and misery.
The point of feeling all that infinite love isn't just to bask in it like a lizard on a rock, to derive pleasure. It's to realize what He did for us, even though we don't deserve it. And to do something with that knowledge that makes us worthy to take part in that glory.
Generations have come before asking all the same questions. Some found the light and we can too. As the reading from Ephesians today says "Live as children of light" and "Take no part in fruitless works". There was never anything "New" about it.
