Help me understand what this means: "I don't like [hate] organized religion." That is like saying that you don't like organized businesses. What about organized roadways & traffic laws? Is that what this means? Let's just all agree on mass disorder. There shouldn't be a boss to tell me what to do or how the company should be run so it can make a profit and keep people employed. Who needs goals?. Also, there shouldn't be traffic rules, laws or enforcement--that all cramps my style and doesn't let me be me--which, of course, is the highest good for humans.
I don't think that is the heart issue. We don't want chaos and mess. It seems like what is really being meant is that religious people have done a bunch of bad or hypocritical things so that leads to individuals turning their lives into private spiritual journeys to flee the hypocrisy, bickering or politics. Don't talk to me about your ideas and I won't talk about mine. Just mind your own business and do your own thing. Let's just be sincere and coexist. [Have you seen the 'COEXIST' bumper sticker? All those religions strongly disagree with each other. Now what!? They cannot all be right.]
I guess what the blog title phrase means is that we don't or can't know what is truth. How can we humans know what is the truth about God or gods and spiritual things? Can God really be known? We can't see, hear, smell, touch or taste God or the supernatural. Don't all roads lead to God? No one can tell anybody that they are wrong. As long as we are sincere.
I sincerely believe I can fly, walk on water, run 250mph, and have $1 billion in the bank. Nobody else thinks any of those are true. Dang! Just because I still believe sincerely, doesn't make it true. Instead I would be exposed as a fool or a nut. But if I sincerely believe spiritual things that are less easily disproven, then it must be true for me. I can now do whatever I want religiously or spiritually. I can make a buffet of everything out there until it is palatable for me. No one can tell me its wrong, since it's mine and I am sincere. So it's all good. Right?
Sunday, March 1, 2009
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