Larry Sanger

It's all about being able to imagine a creator and then immediately thinking, I can be like that.

I know that a lot of people who are into these alternate religions, they don't think—

They don't think it through that way.

But I think at some level, there's some of that going on.

There is a kind of self-idolization.

And a very, very important part of that is this idea that you're lifting yourself up by your bootstraps.

So I got a couple of tweets recently from this guy.

And we've been having a back and forth about it.

a prayer that I posted last Sunday.

And in it, I basically say, God, I say that I want to be as humble as I can.

You know, let me be guided by your spirit.

And to always submit my judgment to yours, essentially.

And this guy was saying, don't you think that it's really important that we...

in order to be properly humble before divinity, that we try to meditate and reach a sort of state of inner peace and so forth.

And my reaction to him, and it's hard to express, but

He's thinking that it's up to him.

He's thinking that there is some sort of spiritual technology or method or something that he can go through.

And that will then make him more qualified, more enlightened to be in touch with, you know, the ascended masters or whatever he thinks exists.

But this is like, it's wrong from the get-go.

It's wrong from the start.