I mean heaven should fill you with joy. hell should be like, kor, i don't want my history to be associated with these cunts. yet it isn't, nonexistence (that is to say, never having existed) has always seemed more desirable to the purposes imputed by religion.
Idk - I can think of some forms of Christianity that don't seem dry. Snake handling bapists and gospel churches for a start. I think religion is about meaning making here, plus a massive side order of ethnic idenification. It's not about the afterlife anyway. That's just the excuse.
dunno. i wanna go back to religion to not commit suicide. but I can't just go to a gospel church can I. I have the dry varieties of sunni islam to fall back on.
Forgive me for being crass in advance 'cos I don't know much/anything the different forms of Islam but is there nothing in the mulitude of forms Islam can take that excites you? No heretical forms that catch your attention? Probably v hard to find if you're actually looking for a community around thatI accept.
Cos it mediates the personal experience - the most exciting aspects of religion, gnosis if you will - with those of community and wider society. It's has an inherent conservatism because of this. But maybe that's a refuge in today's over excitable world.
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