A scholar of early Christian literature writes that religious theories around celestial events are part of a larger human pattern to find meaning. And they go back thousands of years.
I read through the entire fucking thing while in a solitary cell for a couple months. It was a slog, but you can only jerk off and count cinderblocks so many times. I had realistically already broken the faith I was raised in, but actually reading the book and having time to reflect on it myself, without having someone telling me how to interpret it, is what really cemented the decision in my mind.
They tried to read it a couple of times, but there’s a lot of words, and some of them have more than two syllables, so… you know…
I read through the entire fucking thing while in a solitary cell for a couple months. It was a slog, but you can only jerk off and count cinderblocks so many times. I had realistically already broken the faith I was raised in, but actually reading the book and having time to reflect on it myself, without having someone telling me how to interpret it, is what really cemented the decision in my mind.