Lament of the Mind

I swear I’m the only atheist I know that could get lost for hours and hours reading religious texts and theories and practices. Religion offers such a wonderful insight into the human mind, and grants such amazing detail to how humans go about explaining their world and the things around us.

I feel like more people should study religions in general, and use that to apply to psychology, creativity, and social interactions. Beneath the veneer of belief that people fall into, religions offer simply fascinating ideas in them - you just have to polish away the bullshit, push beyond the knee-jerk literal meanings, and take a strong look at the underlying allegories and the mindsets and times of the authors.

Though, there are some things I find…most interesting, in religions. So many very disparate, very separate religions describe things in such similar ways. Now some of this can be put down to basic human observation and existence - we’re similar, so we think similarly. But some of it seems so…unlikely, to simply be thought up randomly, and is so ubiquitous, that I sincerely wonder whether something happened in the deep past, and all these religions appeared to try and explain it.

Oh, the shit I think about at 3-4 AM.