I no longer have certainty about anything.
While that is something, you and I can talk about within a private dialogue, I do not approve of it to be a message spread throughout the youth, for example. Not as the most significant message they get but as being seen as something that will meet them throughout the years of being an adult.
To formulate it differently. If I start with certainty, and my child is the very being that begins life with a blank state, I provide it with a certain form of commonly practiced habit. The child has no intellect on its own. It does not understand prayers, being held at the table, to be thankful for the meal, it just accepts it as a given. If you have signs spread around your household of religious nature, they are a given, but not understood by the child.
But if you start with uncertainty and you do not have a habit, do not have anything which relates to something specific, you do not use common phrases in accordance to that specifics, and in fact you use nothing whatsoever, the child, when it becomes older, has no ground on which it starts to ask questions about the spiritual nature of life. Why should it? There is no reason to question something when that something didn't take place.
So then you have raised your kid in a secular way, where you have not used specifics to teach it in a non-secular way.
Here, my thesis: Secularity, being the only way of raising a kid, produces later adults who do not connect in a deep way towards all given religions, but more in a way of tastes and preferences.
Teenagers and young adults may perceive themselves as tolerant and think that they appreciate different cultures in terms of their religious backgrounds. But since they themselves were not educated with religious specifics, what motivation shall they have, to either appreciate or question religious faith genuinely in the first place?
Modern, western young people grow up with modern parents who may have a Buddhist figurine in one corner of their household, they may grow up with pictures from the Hindu God Khali, nicely adorned in a frame, they may grow up with other bits and pieces from all over the world, but interestingly enough, what a modern household avoids, is to showcase is Jesus Christ on the cross, having a bible laying around, for example. Modern people collect those things from all over the world, appreciating the pleasures of the art but not the discomforts of the meaning. Would they be genuine Buddhists or Hindus or Muslims they would stick to all aspects of the specific culture, the pleasing ones, as well as the not so pleasing ones.
From my perspective, I doubt there are many genuine believers at all. I cannot speak of other nations but my own country has stripped itself off of Christianity and what we are now left with is so called "wokism". It's a highly individualistic, highly self centered cult which propagates "you can be whatever you want", utterly entangled in its contradictions. We have it now written into legislation, so it went to be official that feeling offended is now the base for becoming "integrated". The question is: into what?
Since we do not talk in private but in public, and since we must assume that someone else could read what we spread, I find it crucial to what we feed the field with. Everything publisized with a strong pull towards leaving religion out of everyday life, because it cannot be proven false, will support further the closure of local churches and local facilities to gather as Christians.
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Now I was the one to use a wall of text. And I could go on and on and on.
RE: A COSMIC MULTI-PLAYER GAME - My interpretation of the book of Genesis