Drop Your Religion

There are only a few messages of wisdom in the world. I'm not careful enough to have categorized or listed them. Maybe I could try.

One of them is, "Stop looking so hard, and you'll find what you seek."

The bulk of our effort is trying to find inventive ways to tell these few, basic things to each other. Sometimes it's like we're in an arms race; people try to stem their openness to truth, while other people create new ways to slip truth by, around, through. Once a teller is successful, the listeners learn to defend against that avenue for next time, even as they offer genuine thanks for this time.

So this is pretty good, and you'd probably be better off having read it. It starts:

There is only one righteous way for you to be saved if you’ve spent too much time in the Church. You must lay your religion down. Lay it down hard. Drop it. Leave it on the trail and walk away from it. And you have to mean it. You can’t fake this. You have to renounce religion and leave it for good. As far as you know, you’ll never pick it up again.

Thanks, rlp.