“The system is set up against me” by giving me free housing and income
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You make good points, and I think what you wrote is compatible with what I said. The difference between me and the Christian vision is that for me suffering can exist in certain circumstances, but happiness and contentment in this life is not only possible - it's very common at least in our era. If you're physically healthy, you have a loving family, and enough money to have a roof over your head and food on your table: then you're not suffering and you should be happy.
Christianity on the other hand tells you that you are suffering regardless of how your life is, because suffering is intrinsic to human life. And it makes sure of that by instilling a sense of guilt for everything that is pleasurable in life. In the Bible a woman was basically saying to enjoy your life having sex and eating food, and Jesus... kills her children. Christianity hates the idea that people may be happy. Nietzsche is absolutely right on Christianity. Yes, I am anti-Christian because Christianity has brought so much suffering and misery to humanity. We could just be all happy eating, resting, fucking, loving, being proud of our accomplishments, but no... all of those are sins.
Oh I understand and to quite a large degree agree with what you're saying. I've read and agreed with a lot of what Nietzsche wrote as well.
But for myself at least I just can't hold religion totally responsible for human failings. It only plays into my own suppositions and sometimes misplaced anger/blame. And It's something I realized as one of the main things that's held me back for years from trying to pursue what I want out of life.
I'll still hold firmly onto my reasoning and beliefs, which lean very much towards atheism, but I let myself get far too tunnel visioned over my personal baggage with religion. And I realized I'd deluded myself into creating an enemy in my own mind that was nowhere near as much of an issue as I'd led myself to believe. Which is not only irrational, but ends up being very self defeating in a lot of ways.
I won't assume that's in any way shape or form applicable to you or your history, I'm just trying to explain my own reasoning as honestly as I can.