>There has been a profound loss of the sacred in contemporary Western civilization. Nothing is sacred anymore. And I think sacredness and holiness is part of the conversation that we need to have collectively.
>I know there's a God. It's not a faith thing. God is as real to me as my body is. How do I know? I know that I love. I know that I love my wife. I know that I love my son. [...] That's the first step in knowing that there's a creative force in the universe. I know that there is love.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/25/1171786870/rainn-wilson-urges-a-spiritual-revolution-in-his-new-book-soul-boom
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I can't even feel emotions anymore.
i dont care what any actor says or does outside of acting because i'm not a brainlet
That last paragraph was deeper than interstellar.
That’s a pretty low fricking bar. Love is a fricking chemical reaction our bodies perform to get us to make babies. That’s it.
Yeah because if that fricking midwit Dan Harmon talked about oxytocin that means it doesn’t matter.
Then why does that chemical reaction occur when humans look into a dog's eye or pet them
It’s not my fault you want to frick your dog. People anthropomorphize their pets all the time. It’s the sign of either a woman or a moron.
Humans have a oxytocin-gaze positive loop with dogs you fricking mongoloid, for someone spouting off about how love in a chemical reaction you sure know little about it
>Humans have a oxytocin-gaze positive loop with dogs you fricking mongoloid
Not humans, westerners. If you look at a fricking animal that eats its own shit the same way you look at your wife or kids then you are a fricking degenerate. Animals aren’t humans, they’re tools or food. That’s it.
The israelite reveals himself
so you look at your kids and want to frick them? you're the sicko here
Frick no, I don’t have a wife or kids because I hate people.
dogs are more loyal than your prostitute wife and your ungrateful shits kids, drop your act atheist gay.
God I miss the work site.
nice try, shitskin
>he doesn't love his mother, kids, friends etc
What a sad fricking life you live
Love is that chemical reaction yes, and there's no denying that, but it can also be more than that. There is a reductionist thing and a romantic thing and both can be true.
*tips fedora*
>anon loves his dog
>wants to frick it
What is wrong with you?
>things angsty teenagers say after getting rejected by their crush
>I heckin love science . What's that? No I didn't go to college.
Based Bahai'i devotee
David was a self professed fraud, this guys a moron
He back tracked on this. He's a coward and doesn't love God.
the priest in daredevil was a nice guy
The pastor in From is a good guy
He's right about the need for a spiritual revolution in the west but it won't have anything to do with God or Christianity. Something else needs to come and fill the void left by church in western civilization since so many people have given up on it and will never return. Someone needs to make a half-religion that focuses on spirituality and community but without the "fairy tales" that the nonreligious loathe so much
Something already has filled the void for lack of a better term it's called Wokeism
>muh spirituality without religion
The hippies have tried that countless times and it's failed every time.
The problem so that people want to have sex and fornicate but if you want to create a religion, you can’t have sex freely like how we want to. It’s a catch 22, you can have one or the other you can’t have both.
>without the "fairy tales" that the nonreligious loathe so much
The non religious still need fairy tails as story is the lifeblood of human progression.
>>I know there's a God. It's not a faith thing. God is as real to me as my body is. How do I know? I know that I love. I know that I love my wife. I know that I love my son. [...] That's the first step in knowing that there's a creative force in the universe. I know that there is love.
Based. Dude sounds like he has his priorities straight
>but also support trannies!
Thanks Mr Actor
>uses love as proof of god
>Well you love trannies too. check mate
That is a checkmate. Trannies are fricking awful.
>Rainn Wilson - 'I've run out of work, pls hire me conservatives'
He can live off residuals from The Office alone. Just look at Jenna.
>starred in a cynical sitcom where being a trad guy that takes work and responsibility seriously is being some autist yokel
>"where has the sacredness gone?"
>How do I know? I know that I love. I know that I love my wife.
Let's talk about this after the inevitable divorce.
Unrelated, but can someone post a webm him getting raped by Ellen Page
>Nothing is sacred anymore
Try blaspheming against Black folk
>love
sounds like troony talk to me. That's a couple of steps down from minor attracted folx.
you dont believe in god, you believe the lies of dead men
>Dwight's actor is actually Dwight irl
He's not, he's a big commie.
>I know there's a God. It's not a faith thing. God is as real to me as my body is. How do I know? I know that I love. I know that I love my wife. I know that I love my son. [...] That's the first step in knowing that there's a creative force in the universe. I know that there is love.
the frick does this complete non-sequitor even mean and why should I listen to a man whose claim to fame is playing an autistic sperg is an old sitcom?
He's right, but he got the cause and effect mixed up. It's due to an access in quality of life and technological and economic advance that causes a decline in spirituality.
Cool it with the antisemitic remarks.
Just a cohencidence that a certain group have always been the foremost voices pushing for the changes that cause the biggest declines in quality of life, such as unchecked immigration and feminism suppressing wages by ballooning the workforce, outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, enabling violent crime and anarchy-tyranny that also kills mom and pop businesses and facilitates corporate monopolies, Blackrock buying up homes and jacking up the prices, etc.
Listen I am definitely in the support of spirituality and God but when the first thing you say is "I know there is a God because of my love for my wife and kids", I mean, that's still really, really self centered. Sounds like he's at risk of just being another gay who could easily not believe in God if nothing good ever happened to him.
>I mean, that's still really, really self centered.
It's a woman's argument. It isn't going to appeal to rational minds.
he’s right actually. people who philosophise about god while separate from the rest of their species emotionally end up talking about themselves when they talk about god. love is how we know god, and that is felt actively in living with other people and being loving to them. it’s the same shit plato was getting at with the forms, the experience of witnessing the forms intuits information to us that is incomprehensible but understood in the moment of feeling. when we feel beauty, we intuit something about the transcendent form of beauty beyond the ability of articulation. you understand god by loving others
This pussy "love" shit is the problem.
How old are you. Not even accusing you of anything one way or the other, I'm just honestly curious. I'm 33.
A religious person whose entire rationale for belief boils down to an emotional argument?
Noooooo wayyyyyyyyy!
>How do I know? I know that I love.
Compelling proof.
>How do I know? I know that I love.
I've heard enough, check and mate.
Christians: <3, Atheists: 0
>If you don’t think what I think you are unenlightened and are the problem
the only God there ever was is Mother Nature
Trannies made me a Christian again. Satan is real and only Jesus can save us.
Christ is King.
>Trannies made me a Christian again.
And then the church hushing up rampant priest pedophilia turned you away again, right?
>shit that happened in the 80s versus shit people like you are pushing now
I thought the past was le better?
They learned from it and altered the structure of their organisation. It’s still ongoing and actively normalised now and suddenly you don’t care
1/3 of the korean population is christian
that's why they are more advanced and peaceful than godless westerners
It's the ability and willingness to do what you're told irrespective of what's true or good that's at work there, anon. It's not for ethical or desirable reasons that they have the manner of success they have.
the problem with being a meek servant of god is you just open yourself up to being overrun by limitless nihilists, anarchists, nietzscheans, etc
Atheists genuinely spend all day boiling over some literally who saying this on twitter lmao
>haha u are literally mad lmao
Very christian attitude
is that the best you have
>y-your mockery of my seething attitude d-doesn’t adhere with what I think your conduct should be
very hypocritical moron of you!
You don't sound like a Christian at all, you sound like a smug teenager
and you don’t sound mad that some random actor is religious, you are with 100% certainty mad about it
you DO sound like an atheist however (defensive insecure redditor)
Find me in The Bible where it says not to call out or be angry at others?
Or do you only know Christianity based on the "Christian hypocrisies" from Plebbit?
Admittedly I haven't read his book but I get the impression there'll be nothing of substance here outside of "be nice, engage in your community, and care about others and art." Cool, good suggestions, but that doesn't really contend with the needs of the day. It reminds me of the feel-good nonsense I thought was true when I was in university taking too many drugs (I dropped out because of this fricking shitty attitude when I should have been working).
New-age spirituality is comfy to hear but it's completely substanceless. Faith should have values, responsibilities, duties, and through that, then love is there. You can't just say "we need this," you need to actively figure out what is important enough for you to sacrifice towards your faith - even if that's just focusing on your values and being of service. But then again, are you going to be of service to everyone? What about immigrants that hate you? This is why Islam is spreading so far, it makes no attempt to try and reach out and help those that aren't within its doctrine. It's both a defensive and expansive religion. It doesn't apologise for everything and open up LGBTQ+ friendly churches with drag queen reading hours like some do.
I don't get the impression that Rainn is suggesting an actual faith as opposed to crying out in pain thanks to a lack of one. Hollow corporatism and apologising for the past is all the West has now. To revert it, you need strong, unapologetic principles that can hem the tide.
Take the Islampill. The problems with Muslims aren’t due to their religion, it’s due to the race of the practitioners; mass child rape and murder is roughly as common among non-Muslims third world shitskins.
White Sharia is based.
Cancelled
Is it weird that I am a total science worshipping, vaccine slurping atheist, but also get really pissed at sacralige? Like I honestly was feeling some Sayyid Qutub vibes when seeing Pope Exorcist posters in my Catholic ESL country.
you can land an aeroplane on that forehead
>god is real because i'm a first world millionaire who experiences love
>nevermind the children being hacked to pieces and eaten in third world shitholes