Lets take a little break from politics and have us a real atheist conversation.

Personally, I’m open to the idea of the existence of supernatural phenomena, and I believe mainstream religions are actually complicated incomplete stories full of misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and half-truths.

Basically, I think that these stories are not as simple and straightforward as they seem to be to religious people. I feel like there is a lot more to them. Concluding that all these stories are just made up or came out of nowhere is kind of hard for me.

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      Definition taken from Merriam Webster

      hermetic adjective

      1 a: Of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. and attributed to Hermes Trismegistus

      b: Relating to or characterized by subjects that are mysterious and difficult to understand: Relating to or characterized by occultism or abstruseness

      a hermetic discussion

      2 b: impervious to external influence

      trapped inside the hermetic military machine

      c: recluse, solitary

      leads a hermetic life

      So in this context, I guess I’m using both meanings. As in they are isolated monks with knowledge of the occult and esoteric.