>>17921167>My impressions were not favourable. People seemed very desperate to believe. Many of them were older. There were not that many young people. I was one of the youngest. There were some young families, but they were not the brunt of the flock. We sang songs and hymns on both occasions. They gave me some cool old copies of song books. People were friendly, but I couldn't shake the feeling that they really didn't know whether any of it was true. They were desperately trying to convince themselves of it. I felt like I was in a room of very frightened people, scared of their own shadow and mortality. Clinging to superstition and stories to cope with it.>Jesus often came across as very manipulative and prone to emotional blackmail. He often makes unreasonable demands of people, some on the face of it absurdYup.
Quick background for me, I was raised Christian in a Christian family, but turned atheist/Objectivist at 18. When you do this, they get into that emotional blackmailing phase. I left because they're liars and emotional manipulators, but when you leave, you see just how empty their threats are... because of what you're saying.
No one really knows for sure. They WANT to be correct. They WANT it to be true, therefore they just lie, pretend and role play to make it as real as possible, even though reality always begs to differ. It's an emotional coping mechanism and they get extremely upset when it's questioned or challenged because they enjoy being smug assholes pretending to know more than others.
You're seeing the real limits of faith. How it's one big LARP for people after they're done making empty threats and acting smug with fake confidence, they don't have much to go on. They can't make God or Jesus real, at all.
