omm:
It seems that people who deliberately deconstruct religion, then exorcise it from their lives, eventually realize that maybe they’re not so much smarter than everyone who’s ever lived after all. When they inevitably discover that faith has a purely utilitarian value as a way of mitigating the mounting existential dread that arises from simply being alive, they generally resort to creating some kind of half-assed religion substitute. This leads to spiritual philosophies that embarrass everybody, like aromatherapy and everything Jewel believes.