tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111542293355322668.post3524225110228297239..comments2024-03-26T21:23:37.253-04:00Comments on Living Liminally: Some Advice For Former Christians About Unpacking Christian BaggageUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111542293355322668.post-44020785360455539682019-08-28T23:34:46.155-04:002019-08-28T23:34:46.155-04:00It's great to hear that someone else, raised i...It's great to hear that someone else, raised in the USA,doesn't have an automatic grasp of these Christian concepts. I was raised in a secular home by an atheist in the buckle of the bible belt. In the bible belt you do hear phrases commonly used and some I never realized were christian until I moved away in my mid-30s. I didn't think about the original significance. After the move I Margareehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13272744897105444828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111542293355322668.post-28824878346063757092019-07-25T16:52:14.319-04:002019-07-25T16:52:14.319-04:00A quick note about Buddhism before a few other com...A quick note about Buddhism before a few other comments: Buddhism isn't a single, monolithic thing. Different branches of Buddhism adopt different beliefs, and the Buddhism of the monks doesn't always necessarily perfectly align with things like folk Buddhism, and the "personal effort" view of Buddhist religion is a model mostly peddled by ignorant Westerners who want to co-opt MatttyGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12064581066890771399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111542293355322668.post-67551931537236571232019-07-25T14:32:41.889-04:002019-07-25T14:32:41.889-04:00That's fair. I was under the impression that t...That's fair. I was under the impression that the Christian idea of humans being born flawed and needing divine saving to allow them to go to a good afterlife was unique and different from other cosmologies, but I admit my knowledge of the concepts are basic. For example I wouldn't equate the Christian idea to the Buddhist one of escaping samsara because that relies on personal effort to M.A.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16406876376042247389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111542293355322668.post-91573527079620850422019-07-24T21:53:11.041-04:002019-07-24T21:53:11.041-04:00Hello... I was born in a christian family (they we...Hello... I was born in a christian family (they weren't deep into it, though) but I never had that sense of belonging to it. I believe that references to christianity in everyday speech are all a matter of habit. Every time I find myself saying something of the sort, I can see how deeply ingrained these habits are. But, at least in my case, it is only that... I don't have a clear Pablo Pecorellihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16156911825546021881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111542293355322668.post-57396850656615755122019-07-23T12:58:01.713-04:002019-07-23T12:58:01.713-04:00>The Gods don't save us, whatever that even...>The Gods don't save us, whatever that even means.<br /><br />Relating back to point 2, the idea of divine salvation is not unique to Christianity either. Hinduism and Buddhism in the modern world, the Neoplatonic traditions of the late Roman Empire, and a number of mystery cults throughout the ancient world have salvation as a goal (given some appropriate definition of "salvation,&MatttyGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12064581066890771399noreply@blogger.com