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“I am an unchurched person, I don’t attend any and all houses of worship regularly. I don’t consume religious content of any kind anymore (virtual, media, and in-person.) As a human right person, I would only attend any house or worship such as interfaith and secular coalitions for international human rights purposes only. I gain insightfulness from all secular ideologies and all religious texts. I am a figuratist, not a literalist. I am transitioning from believing to knowing. “ -Antonio Myers. “Never feeling good enough. Since we are acutely aware of our own failings, it can be hard internally to stay out of the bad-guy box. Some of us toggle between “I’m awesome” and “I suck.” Others have a nagging internal critic that tells us nothing we do is ever quite good enough. After all, it isn’t perfect, and that’s the biblical standard. Hyperactive guilt detection. Biblical Christianity gives tremendous moral weight to all of this, and the practice of “confessing our sins one to another” turns believers into guilt-muscle body builders. We live in a world of shoulds and should-nots, and in the Protestant ethic, those daily failings are moral failings. A nagging sense of guilt can become baseline normal, with little bursts of extra guilt as we notice one thing or another that we have left undone or goals where we have fallen short.” I don’t think any religious text is completely divinely inspired, completely completely divinely breathed, completely Sola Scriptura, and completely ordained by any supernatural figure. I know that all religious texts are fallible and errant. I do not practice any religion. No religious text is the word of any deity nor any Christ figure. I don’t abide by any religious creeds, religious doctrines, religious dogmas, religious statutes, religious tenets, religious precepts, religious laws, religious commandments, and religious beliefs. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/support