as small as a world and as large as alone

chordatesrock:

adamthenorman:

…. do you know what a crutch is?

A crutch is something you use to help you walk when you’re injured.  You throw it away when you’re feeling better and you don’t use it again unless you sustain another injury.

There are is a group of people who do use religion as a crutch: non-religious people (in which I include people who claim to be a part of a religion without actually practising it).  These are the people who will be praying desperately during a crisis and bargaining with God, and then after the storm has cleared, they forget it ever happened and they go back to doing exactly whatever it was they did before.

People who are sincerely religious don’t use faith as a crutch- for them, faith is oxygen.  It’s something that’s very much apart of them in good times and in bad.  And for many religions, it is not about simple happiness- it’s about transformation.

That really is brilliant!

Though some people are going to need crutches all the time, because disability, which is the metaphor I would have used— yes, we all need God like only some of us need crutches, because hey, we can’t just do everything on our own, and what’s wrong with acknowledging you need help?

But I like yours, too.

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    I find this very well stated.

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    Thank you

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