Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Answering your own question/reply (3)

Yeah, that's what creates the CD, the discomfort about such things, so you just quickly move on. As I said, I know they are "believers" cause they talk about Easter and Christmas services, but only one or two out of the 15ish that work here seem to be people who go often. (Again, with the exception of our indian co-workers, for whom spirituality is a huge part of their life.)

Vine Deloria (one of my professors, and one of the first Native American lawyers to take on the system at large, in the 70s) talks at length about breaking the cognitive dissonance by in effect saying that the world he lives in, the "white people", the "legal language and proceedings" is a necessary illusion for living in the world "they" created. Sorta the opposite of me feeling as if religion or spirituality is the illusion, I guess. He had no problem reconciling the two, cause in his mind it was just a host of lies he told the white man, to get what he needed or wanted. "An indian lawyer must use the White system and learn to navigate the legal roads, though they do not at all represent how he feels about society, legal issues, or the physical and spiritual world at large. It becomes a costume you put on, like the masks you wear when dancing, to elicit particular responses out of your audience".

I would be fine if the lawyers said "Christianity is bullshit, but it makes me feel good, so i go". But like you said, they just never ask the questions - whatever the questions be.