FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT FAITH. In a world addicted to comfort, a shocking new trend is emerging: intellectuals are not just returning to religion—they are SEEKING OUT the most extreme, repressive, and hell-obsessed versions ON PURPOSE. While her mother withers away from dementia, author Ash chronicles her descent into a “radical, active” prayer life, a “wrestle” to be “undone” by a God whose history she admits is ABHORRENT. This isn’t gentle spirituality; this is a desperate, masochistic hunt for meaning in the abyss. She prays with her “mind in hell,” a practice borrowed from a philosopher who wrote her masterpiece while DYING OF CANCER. These converts aren’t looking for peace—they are addicts of despair, chasing a high that moderation can never provide.
This is a DANGEROUS spiritual rebellion against the secular world. Fueled by internet rabbit holes that radicalize users into anti-abortion fundamentalism, modern seekers like Ash are explicitly rejecting “accessible” faith. They are drawn to lifelong celibacy, rigid orthodoxy, and traditions that BIND and RESTRICT, seeing freedom in surrender. Critics warn this is a “superficial and cold” whirlwind of emotional excitement, a distortion of true belief. Yet they plunge deeper, moved to tears by street evangelists, yearning to be “set apart, purified, chosen.” They are intentionally choosing a path that DEFIES modern sensibility, seeking transformation through utter submission.
This disturbing movement reveals a terrifying truth: in our crisis of meaning, the next intellectual frontier isn’t liberation, but a voluntary embrace of chains. The comfortable world is dying, and its most educated minds are now praying for its end.
Author: Kayitsi.com
