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Secular support, comfort and hope for people trapped within or leaving behind religious beliefs. A non-judgemental space for people born into a religion who are questioning their religious faith or who feel under pressure to ’keep the faith’ or remain within a religion or vocation they are losing their belief in. Encouraging people to think for themselves, trust themselves and respect their doubts. Life is short. Be you. Be free. Joe the Human Substack: https://joearmstrong.substack.com/ Joe Armstrong website: https://joearmstrong.ie Twitter @LosingMyRelig1 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfcXAPkTT401BZuQgYSGCA Signature tune © www.louisebyrnemusic.com Photo of Joe Armstrong © Fran Veale
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Friday May 14, 2021
Friday May 14, 2021
Do many priests and bishops feel that religion is a money-making ‘scam’? Are clerics too deeply embedded in religion to reject it? Do priests ‘know well’ that the whole thing is based on nonsense? Are there as many atheologies among non-believers as there are theologies among believers? How difficult is it to be searingly honest in public? Does a lack of self-esteem predispose people to religion? Does religion offer a sense of control – if I say my prayers my sick relative won’t die?
Do people commit to religion believing it’s the best way to be good? How does leaving religion affect your psychological health and relationships? Where will the Church be in 20 to 30 years’ time - what’s the endgame for the Church? Are religious congregations heading for extinction?
Do Humanist celebrants touch people’s ‘souls’ at births, marriages and deaths? Is leaving religion like looking through the Looking Glass? Do former believers undergo a baptism of fire into Humanism? Tolstoy said that abandoning your religion was like walking out into a Russian winter snow without a coat. Is that true? How can you know that you are right to abandon your religion? What does it feel like to realise that, in your head and in your gut, you don’t believe in God? Is it therapeutic writing about the experience of transitioning from belief to unbelief?
These fascinating questions are addressed in this podcast. They were asked at a live event, by people attending the launch of the acclaimed memoir by Joe Armstrong In My Gut, I Don’t Believe. It was hosted by the Humanist Association of Ireland and compared by Eamon Murphy. For reviews of the memoir, click here. To read or listen to interviews about In My Gut, I Don’t Believe conducted in the media, click here. For the author’s website, click here.
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