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but if that's your primary engagement with it, then it makes sense that when you lose that, you lose a lot of what the whole thing meant to you.
You make a good point. And there was a stretch where that certainly was the primary angle through which I understood my faith.
I want to say that there were many other elements to it: the experience of the mass, prayer life, the theology and reading things like Boethius and St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas or things like G K Chesterton and C S Lewis.
But you are picking up on something in that what I write about when I tell the story.
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reading things like Boethius and St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas or things like G K Chesterton and C S Lewis
How was your experience reading these great Christian philosophers? Did you find it inspiring and engaging, or did it feel hollow and contrived? Or maybe it felt one way previously and you feel a bit differently now?
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Why not be honest with your kids? You can tell them you don't believe it, but you want them to decide for themselves, while raising them in an environment that you acknowledge has positive resources for mental health, as well as not being inherently irrational or unreasonable?
The one thing I'll add is, given what you shared about your background -- I wonder if your expression of faith was narrowly tied to social justice action. Caring for the poor is part of the faith, but if that's your primary engagement with it, then it makes sense that when you lose that, you lose a lot of what the whole thing meant to you.
Ok, I'll add two things. From my casual observation, the percent of Christians in the bitcoin world seems a bit higher than in the non-bitcoin world. Take that how you will, but I do think it says something about how religion isn't inherently a scam the way many other human institutions are.