00440 – Belief Can Be a Burden
Lasch, Christopher

Far from putting doubts to rest, religion has the effect of intensifying them.

It judges those who profess faith more harshly than it judges unbelievers. It holds them up to a standard of conduct so demanding that many of them inevitably fall short…

For those who take religion seriously, belief is a burden, not a self-righteous claim to some privileged moral status.

Self-righteousness, indeed, may be more prevalent among skeptics than believers.

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