First things first
What Christianity taught me about honesty
I’m working on a number of essays, but this one is about cognitive dissonance and faith. This essay is mostly about faith and lies because those two words go together.
A practicing Christian cannot be honest with themself or with others. That’s why faith was created. Faith is simply admitting that your crazy ideas do not make sense while insisting to yourself and those around you that your ideas about meaning, the world, and why we are self-aware are authoritative.
As a kid, anytime I questioned the obvious fallacies and contradictions in the Christian Bible, the only answer was: you have to have faith. To my younger self, that translated too: lie to the adults because they’re all crazy as shit.
Some factors that can cause cognitive dissonance include:
Forced compliance: A person may have to do things they disagree with as part of a job, t…
