#testing you

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"It's interesting that doubt and skepticism of faith is always cast as 'god testing you' or 'the devil tricking you' or some other variant.

It's much more likely that your critical thinking skills are starting to make headway."

-- David G. McAfee

[ludiss]

"What are you doing?"

"Testing you."

[howifeltabouthim]

and they're trying to drive you into the ground, to see if anything walks away.

Richard Siken, from Crush

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"If a perfect God with the ability to create a perfect world exists and wants you to be there, then you would be there. He wouldn't need to run incredibly cruel tests, the results to which he already knows."

A god who is perfect would have no need for anything. It wouldn't need worship, it wouldn't need to forgive, and it wouldn't need to create an entire universe in which to play out the bizarre drama to satisfy these needs.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Young Sheldon, s06e01, “Four Hundred Cartons of Undeclared Cigarettes and a Niblingo”

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Believers like to think that life is a test of faith, sent by their god, that they’re passing.

I like to imagine that life is a test of logic and reason, sent by intergalactic aliens, that they’re failing."

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]