Yeah one of the ways evangelical Christianity messes you up is it actively pushes you to rewrite history and memory
They give you a universal life script (sin, repentance, salvation) and tell you to remember your life that way
They give you a universal life script (sin, repentance, salvation) and tell you to remember your life that way
https://twitter.com/mcjulie/status/1348682609384067072
And because so much of this narrative is internal and invisible it's really easy to do
You get tons of extremely pat narratives about how anything that went wrong in your life was a test or a punishment for unaddressed sin, and then God took care of it as soon as you prayed
You get tons of extremely pat narratives about how anything that went wrong in your life was a test or a punishment for unaddressed sin, and then God took care of it as soon as you prayed
This is just why I'm generally averse to "spirituality" in this vein even divorced from theology
It is very important to understand, as the writer of Ecclesiastes did, that everything does NOT happen for a reason
It is very important to understand, as the writer of Ecclesiastes did, that everything does NOT happen for a reason
The sense of control and comfort people get from having something to thank when things go well is not, in my view, worth the burden of being Job and being stuck looking for a reason when things go wrong
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