More on lies
Most people grow out of the little lies parents tell them about sex, death,
and cursing. Most intelligent people I know grew out of religious ideals their
parents instilled in them. Not in a sense that they teach their children to
curse, or that they switched from Judaism to Christianity, but in a sense that
they recognized these things as entirely arbitrary. They'll still teach their
children not to curse, and they'll go to the synagogue, but they'll do it
exactly because they saw through the arbitrary nature of these ideas, and are
no longer controlled by them. Once you see that something you do is completely
arbitrary, you become free of it, and once you're free there is no value in
rebelling against it. There is no conflict in staying religious and
recognizing the arbitrary nature of your belief.
- Slava Akhmechet