Hi. I hope I am not a bother. May I ask why your writing sounds so like idk. It just has a lot of religious imagery. Why is that?
because religion is the oldest language we have for weight.
ritual, judgment, confession, sacrifice, absolution, altar, sin, witness, penance… those words were built to carry things that normal language can’t hold. you can talk about guilt, trauma, love, death, responsibility, and existence in plain terms, but they flatten it. religious language was designed to hold unbearable concepts without breaking.
i don’t use it because i’m religious. i use it because it already knows how to talk about things that feel bigger than a person.
ceremony gives structure to chaos. when something feels too large or too abstract- identity, morality, suffering, devotion, survival- ritual language gives it a shape. it makes it something you can stand in front of instead of something that just dissolves you.
also… religious imagery is about authority. about what claims power over a person. god, law, conscience, guilt, love, memory… they all function the same way psychologically. they tell you what you are allowed to be. they judge you. they demand posture. they demand kneeling. that’s what i’m actually writing about most of the time.
it’s not faith. it’s architecture.
it’s the only vocabulary that was built to talk about judgment, devotion, and things you can’t argue with.
and honestly? because when something matters enough, it stops feeling like a metaphor. it starts feeling like a ritual. so i write it like one.
and i just fucking like it. it sounds cool in my person opinion.
