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Atheism is not really complex at all. It is the consequence of not growing up in a living spiritual tradition and the misconception that if you keep digging deeper, deconstructing everything, you'll find 'truth' at the bottom, instead of hollow misery, loneliness and nihilism.

It is driven by the maxim "it's better to believe an uncomfortable truth than a comforting lie", but behind this pretense of being some kind of noble truth seeker in a sea of ignorant sheep, is a failure to grasp just how uncomfortable it truly is. Humans are not meant to live in a barren spiritual-desert.

Despite belief that he is the smartest guy in the room, he is just unhappy, living in a fractured, post-industrial and globalised world, trying to cope. It's no wonder that most atheists are also leftists because their goals are the same - not to "oppose God" - but rather to deconstruct tradition, meaning and order under the mistaken pretense of a noble cause.

When modern man believes in the inevitability of progress, the failure of traditional religions, each competing for their own claim to universal truth, does not change much for him besides the demystification of the world. Nor can he look backwards, because that would oppose progress. Yet without religious traditions, he still seeks out universal 'truth' at any cost.

However the problem is not that he was looking for it in the wrong places, but this search for ultimate 'truth' in the first place. It goes for Christians and Evolan perennialists and much as for atheists, but the pursuit of a single 'truth' is itself a woeful path. You don't need to justify yourself any further than "this is what my people believe, it is the language of their reality and traditions, and I belong to that people."

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Atheism is not really complex at all. It is the consequence of not growing up in a living spiritual tradition and the misconception that if you keep digging deeper, deconstructing everything, you'll find 'truth' at the bottom, instead of hollow misery, loneliness and nihilism.

It is driven by the maxim "it's better to believe an uncomfortable truth than a comforting lie", but behind this pretense of being some kind of noble truth seeker in a sea of ignorant sheep, is a failure to grasp just how uncomfortable it truly is. Humans are not meant to live in a barren spiritual-desert.

Despite belief that he is the smartest guy in the room, he is just unhappy, living in a fractured, post-industrial and globalised world, trying to cope. It's no wonder that most atheists are also leftists because their goals are the same - not to "oppose God" - but rather to deconstruct tradition, meaning and order under the mistaken pretense of a noble cause.

When modern man believes in the inevitability of progress, the failure of traditional religions, each competing for their own claim to universal truth, does not change much for him besides the demystification of the world. Nor can he look backwards, because that would oppose progress. Yet without religious traditions, he still seeks out universal 'truth' at any cost.

However the problem is not that he was looking for it in the wrong places, but this search for ultimate 'truth' in the first place. It goes for Christians and Evolan perennialists and much as for atheists, but the pursuit of a single 'truth' is itself a woeful path. You don't need to justify yourself any further than "this is what my people believe, it is the language of their reality and traditions, and I belong to that people."

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