What traditions have you not kept that your parents had?
Just because something has been done for eons doesn’t make it right. We used to build using asbestos products. We used to heat our homes with coal. We used to put lit candles on Xmas trees. Just because something lives in your memories doesn’t make it good. There’s a reason why we’re losing our religion. We’re finally realizing that the people who are at the top of every religion are using our faith to control us. They’ve indoctrinated us since birth with magical thinking. There is no such thing as magic. Freedom comes with the knowledge of that. I recently wrote about voting for nostalgia. The political parties that use nostalgia in order to win your vote don’t want to add to your freedoms, but take your freedoms from you. Nostalgia is dangerous because it isn’t real. But it is powerful, and the parties that use it know that.
I prefer to use logical thinking to live my life. I’m not religious because I don’t like being controlled. I don’t vote for people who want to take my freedoms from me, choosing instead to seek out the people who want to add to my freedoms.
I’ll leave you with my favorite quote on freedom.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest – Denis Diderot