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The very oldest ideas of man are purely religious, and there is no notion of any sort of God or gods. God and gods enter when man has 'fallen' into a sense of separateness and loneliness. — D. H. Lawrence, Apocalypse

The Key to Happiness March 16, 2007

Posted by Rastaban in : Atheist Culture, Naturalism , 2 comments

The key to happiness is discovering — and reconciling with — the fact that we are not minds. If you grow up in a Christian culture this is the most important mental health lesson you must learn.

We grow up instilled with a lie. Nearly everything in Judeo-Christian culture implicitly or explicitly teaches us that we are a mind with a body to do our bidding. Well, what’s wrong with that, you might ask? It makes sense, doesn’t it? (more…)