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Quote by: Mr.Vicchio I ask this in all seriousness, putting aside my own beliefs, and yours, here's the question:
There is a general sense of loss of spirituality in the world, some countries it's more prevalent then others, but that's not the point, that there is this movement away from religion, and all things religious, is man really progressing or is it something else?
I was thinking about this today, and I hoenstly don't know. On one hand, I can see the arguement of "It's our destiny, it our life, where is this God and why should we listen to him?"
I can understand the issue, after all, we can't hear, see, detect God in any tangible way. So is he really there?
It begs the question though, if there is a God and people turn away from him, whose fault?
I blame the larger Churches, that have become mroe power/money systems, and the organized religions as a whole. "If you don't believe what WE believe, you shall burn in the firey pitts of HELL!" right. I have not, nor will I ever buy that line of thought. If X religion is so right, and our souls would really rot in hell for not believing them, don't you think God would have spent a bit more effort makng sure we knw that was the gig? Yeah, me too.
In the end though, it's hard to even bother with religion in some ways because there are 5,000 different flavors of "Believe in US and YOU will be a chosen one" It's crap. Crap crap crap. But IMHO that doesn't mean there isn't a God. |
Christianity had a problem with spirituality from the beginning. In Egyptian theology, there is a trinity of the soul. Part of our soul is always with the creator, part dies with the body, and part is judged after death. This part may go to the good life after death or may not, depending on the person's worthness, goodness of heart. Christianity makes this trinity of spirit external. There is the external God, the external holy ghost and son.
Spirituality once recognized the spirit in everything, the rock, the water, the animal, etc, and quantum physics is returning to this. Christianity opposed this sense of spirituality and called it superstitution, and then gave use supernatural spirituality of an external God, and realms of angels and demons. Like the definition of supernatural is supernatural powers. What kind of sense is it to base a religion on supernatural powers, and say this is the truth, and believing there is spirit in everything, is superstitution? Huh? :eek: Truly a person has to be taught how this belief system works, because unless one learns to think like a Christian, what they say makes no sense.
I believe I am a very spiritual person. I know I am very passionate about this. I really dislike it when a Christians tells me I don't have a God or that God is his/her God and not my God. How can this be? God is monad. Out of the monad comes everything. There may be angels and demons but my heart is with the spirits of earth. I would say I am pagan, except I favor reason, and that is not a pagan trait by the Greek definition of pagan. Okay, I am a helenized pagan. :) However, reason without heart is not to recognize spiritual reality. Passion is of the heart. When Christians stop denying us our sense of God and morality, they will see the spirituality they are not seeing now.
Heck, when all religious people stop their "I have the truth and am speical to God and you don't know the truth, and therefore, aren't acceptable to MY God", thinking and behavior, there will be a huge global improvement.