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I love this. I was basically a religious fundamentalist for the first 15 years of my life (not really my parents' fault; they just took me to a somewhat normal church, but I took biblical evangelism way too seriously), and then agnostic for the next 20ish years. It took a few crises and much therapy for me to realize that my new-age agnosticism (ascribing intention to the Universe, and getting sucked into superstitions) was really a form of OCD, as is most religion/spiritual belief. So I decided to embrace atheism and material reality rather than trying to interpret the will of the "Universe," and it has helped more with my anxiety/PTSD than anything else. I still think rituals have a place in a meaningful life, but we have to acknowledge that all meaning comes from ourselves, not from some supernatural force that's trying to punish or reward us.

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May I cross-post this?

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