Thread by @JoLuehmann

When my son was about to start pre-school I asked him if he was excited to learn new things, he said he wasn’t, I asked him why and he replied “I already know everything.”
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This is funny and endearing when it comes from a 3 year old, but when adults behave that same way, it’s not funny anymore, but a sign of immaturity and arrogance.
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Inside Toxic Christianity, and supremacy culture, there is no room for admitting ignorance, because to claim your faith is superior, you also have to have a faith that provides all answers. The problem is faith isn’t about answers; certainty is the anti-thesis of faith.
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Doubt and the unknown are to faith what water is to the ocean, impossible to separate.

Superiority culture, or ethnocentrism, is a belief that the ways in which we behave, exist, and live, in one’s culture are superior to other cultures.
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It’s centering your culture as the standard and comparing all other cultures to it. This happens w/in European and North American white culture a lot, it’s what we call white supremacy,
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which also centered notions of Christianity as the standard of morality and well being in most of the west. The issue w/that, is that to assert superiority you have to prove it w/factual evidence, and since factual evidence of one culture’s superiority over another...
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is not truly possible, then you have to craft it w/cookie cutter answers and ideas that are not more than that, ideas.

A lot of the things that we’ve been told are sure things, final, and tested truths, inside of toxic Christianity,
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are really just conclusions ppl got to w/evidence they later molded to fit that conclusion. Ignorance, and/or embracing the unknown, about issues of faith and spirituality, which to me includes navigating relationship w/ourselves and others, as well as healing;
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is not weakness but honesty. We can’t know what is supposed to remain unknown, we can’t have crafted, performative answers for that which each of us have to navigate on our own and find through life.
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The goal of a healthy existence is not to have answers for all the things, or to even know all the things; the goal is to embrace the unknown, welcome the adventure of finding our own answers, and cheer for the adventure everyone else is on.
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There is no right way to live, no right way to be, no right relationship with the divine, there is only our way, and our way is always right for us if what we are seeking is wholeness.